Patrick DeAngelis is an oil painter based in Southern California. His work explores light and color harmonies within vast atmospheric spaces. Born and raised in Northeast Ohio, DeAngelis studied painting under artist Fredrick Graff and earned an MFA at the New York Academy of Art in 2006. His early works, composed on large birch panels explore hazy mountain vistas revealed though thin oil glazes. In these early works, the viewer enters a vast color-field landscape painted to evoke a sense of stillness, calm and wonder.