Description: Trained as an architect, Ocampo began to paint in Paris while working as a diplomat (1950-52). Early affinities with Cubist and post-Impressionist treatments of color and composition crystallized into dynamic geometries in his mature works, which are characterized by a meticulous luminosity and finish. The allusive atmospherics of his paintings from the later 1960s and ‘70s hint at land formations and even the human body, suggesting the protean possibilities of geometric lines and curves. -Text by Abigail McEwen