Described alternatively as a modernist and an abstract expressionist, American painter Caio Fonseca layers forms and slabs of color on his canvasses to create works of fundamental energy. Fonseca’s paintings are often suggestive of the lids of pianos or of the curves of stringed instruments. A pianist himself, he has said that he paints Baroque music, and there is a Baroque sense of order and harmony to his work. The blocking of different coats and textures strikes a tension between the ordered and the lively, a contrast that forms the core of Fonseca’s oeuvre.

The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum of Art in Brooklyn, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., among others, all include selections of the artist’s work in their permanent collections. He is represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York City. 

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