Reflejo Fragmentado, 2008, 36x36x3

Colón identifies most strongly with the art and architecture of mid-20th-century Western civilization, and her work evinces a dialectical resolution of the forces that determined in particular the abstract painting of that era. Colón’s painting embraces and elides the disparity between geometric and gestural abstraction, fusing the spirit and texture of one with the line and composition of the other to achieve an ordered sensuality, a passion whose allure is heightened by its rhythmic precision.   Colón’s paintings brim with this lustrous allure, and with the nostalgia that flavors it, particularly as rendered by a sensibility formed just outside the postwar bubble. But in their reflective surfaces and vibrating shapes Colón’s paintings brim as well with a restless energy, a potential for entropy, metamorphosis, even cataclysm. If they reflect back to the postwar era that Colón never knew, they reflect forward to the post-digital age that Colón’s children will inhabit, an age not of limitless possibilities but urgent necessities and rapidly changing realities. Colón’s painting can at first seem decorative and self-contained; but it is fraught with pathos, and at the same time radiates hope. It summarizes Modernist abstraction even as it looks forward to a newer, humbler neo-Modernism. In its message as well as its material it is built to last.     Peter Frank –Art Critic