Thomas Micchelli writes about the paintings of Patricia Satterlee whose exhibition Already Gone is on view at the Martin Art Gallery of Muhlenberg College, PA, through May 26, 2017.

Micchelli writes: “These forms are limitlessly varied and undeniably strange… Satterlee puts these motifs through their formal paces — rotating and mirroring them; reducing them to line; casting them into shadows; locking them into patterns and then clouding them over with mists of color — and in the process convinces us of their efficacy. Shapes that might have initially appeared to be simultaneously incongruous and anomalous, the phrasings of a private, hermetic vocabulary, are in fact adaptable and resilient combinatory forms transferable across new painterly contexts and new strings of ideas.”