Patricia Reinhart’s painting practice explores abstraction as an extension of interior and exterior space. Color, gesture, and layered composition generate dynamic fields in which emotional, psychological, and perceptual structures become visible. Works unfold as processes rather than fixed images, balancing intuition and precise material control. Central to the practice is the idea of the cut as a constructive gesture. In the Cut-Out works, painted surfaces are precisely incised, opening the canvas into real space. The image becomes sculptural, exposing underlying layers, stretcher frames, and the spatial conditions of painting itself. Rather than destruction, the cut operates as transformation; redefining pictorial boundaries and expanding the field of painting into architecture and environment.
Alongside this structural approach, Patricia Reinhart’s work engages with fluid painterly systems in which color behaves as a physical and emotional material. Transparent and opaque layers interact with drawing-like interventions, producing complex spatial tensions between surface and depth, control and accident. Painting becomes a site where perceptual, psychological, and embodied processes converge. Across series such as Paradise, Coïncidences, Wings and Patience, abstraction functions as a method for articulating states of perception, memory, and transformation. These works construct open pictorial systems in which forms remain in flux, oscillating between material presence and conceptual extension.
Excerpt from a text by Synne Genzmer on Patricia Reinhart’s painting practice, Vienna 2022
Text by Anne Avramut on Patricia Reinhart’s Wing series, Vienna 2022