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(…) since the beginning of her professional career, Frances Picó has given all her energy to work in an abstract way . Abstraction has suited her well in the sincere desire to express emotional, spiritual and esthetic experiences. Frances plays with forms, colors and textures to open windows to her interior world, thus allowing the spectator to find deep answers. There is a Turner quality in many of her paintings, as if we were dealing with landscape remnants with the intensity and chromatic ambiguity of a sunset. Like this particular time of the day, her works provoke the feeling of multiple sensations and emotions. Nevertheless, the esgrafiados dispersed in the canvas, born of the expressive will of the artist, recall that we are not dealing with a matter of nature but with landscapes of a very different kind that reflect towards the inside to remembrances, emotions and personal experiences. Frances Picó, points out the art critic Manuél Álvarez Lezama and we affirm with him, has reached a sophisticated maturity that justifies to position her among the good representatives of the Puerto Rican abstraction (…).

(Rafael Torres Torres, Director of the San Juan Art Students League and the Contemporary Art Museum, November 4, 2003, Una pasión en dos tiempos exhibition catalogue essay – translation by T.K. James)