Gianni, 50”x56”, 1997
Gianni, 1997

 

(…) Picó has already reached a sophisticated aesthetic maturity and her compositions – full of suggestive “games”- reveal an artist who can deal with sensuality and emptiness, with great depth and joy. Some of Picó’s paintings, and her more recent encaustics compositions, are exceptional from the point of view of color, texture, use of space and all because of their poetic ambiguity. I believe that after seeing these compositions we have to begin including Picó in the big league of Puerto Rican abstractionism (…).

(Manuél Álvarez Lezama, Abstract Excellence, The San Juan Star, March 23, 1998)