Sylvie Barcelo, (1959 - 1994) was born in Montreal, Quebec. Sylvie exhibited widely in Canada and the United States, as well as in Bamako, Mali and Mogadishu, Somalia. Strongly influenced by her extensive travels throughout India, Nepal, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, Barcelo combined symbols and colors from a diverse cultural spectrum to create her own distinctive style of abstraction and fragmentation. In particular, her experiences in Mali and Somalia profoundly shaped her painting style in terms of her use of space, color, and structural forms. Barcelo's paintings are deeply personal and yet insistently connected to broad cultural codes. As these highly evocative works continue to inspire audiences, her vibrant and colorful acrylic paintings in fact bear her legacy. Sylvie Barcelo passed away from breast cancer in 1994.