Sylvie Barcelo, (1959 - 1994) was born in Montreal, Quebec. Sylvie exhibited widely in Canada and the United States. She also exhibited 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 distinct cultures to create her own distinctive style. Her experiences particularly from 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. A year before her passing, in 1993, Sylvie was the recipient of grants from the D.C. Commission on the Art and Humanities and The National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been collected through out the world by many private collectors. Please join us for this special exhibition.