Patricia Satterlee is a painter who lives in Long Island City and works in Bushwick. Satterlee’s art seeks to capture the relational space that exists between objects. From her point of view, space is a cluster of particles that build form, which then dissolves. The artist’s paintings capture this ephemeral moment before it dissipates.

The artist uses flashe paint to emphasize the austere flatness of the picture plane and then breaks that down further. Satterlee’s Painted Drawings-series (2006-2007) captures yellow lines that group together as odd, anthropomorphic forms over a light blue background. The Two Red Dot-series (2009) portrays two red dots of equal size, diametrically opposed among other spattered dots of similar but different hues. Each painting portrays the subject at different locations, expanding on the possibilities of balance within the genre of abstraction.

In 2009 Satterlee’s work was featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C. and then part of Core & Mantle in 2010, a group show at the M55 Gallery in Long Island City. Her paintings also appeared in the May 2010 issues of Architectural Digest and the June 2010 issue of Elle Décor.