Patrick Coffaro creates desert artworks in such scorching colors, they virtually shimmer with heatwaves. Coffaro is a Chicago-based printer and painter best known for blisteringly bold images of cacti and the Southwestern desert. Coffaro occasionally embellishes his scenes with lizards, flowers and the archetypical longhorn skull. His vivid works derive their signature look from a chine-collé technique of coloring and bonding layers of paper with inks, varnish and pressure from a printing press. Daringly bright, Coffaro’s art is collected internationally and displayed in galleries across the nation.

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