La justicia del tribunal, 2001, 42”x44
La justicia del tre, 2001

 

(…) Frances Picó embraced the visual arts after living a full life. With her 2001 exhibition she has established herself once and for all, as one of the most important abstract painters of Puerto Rico. Each one of her present abstract compositions captures the delicate but most powerful aesthetic vision of this lover of life. Frances Picó’s new paintings deal with real experiences from life: the experiences of terrible falls and losses and the incredible necessary celebrations; they are full of colors and full of blacks, and there is light and darkness, painful pasts and a bright future; all of these, because life is a constant roller coaster ride, and there are days that we begin to love again, and days that, unintentionally, we stop loving what we once loved most. Picó’s paintings reveal agonies and flights of importance and are impressive/original mirrors of pain, and a desire for happiness of men and women who can, and always give, their best half (…).

( Manuel Álvarez Lezama, Picó, la vida misma, El Nuevo Dia, October 7, 2001- Translation by T.K. James )