The Color Queen
Concetta Antico is an Australian born critically acclaimed artist best known for her Tetrachromatic Impressionism. Her signature use of vibrant colors and earthly and otherworldly scenes are as captivating as they are unique. Renowned worldwide as The Color Queen, Concetta paints original works that unite nature and science through a style of kaleidoscopic hues and dynamic brushwork.
Her work has been chronicled extensively and has attracted a large audience worldwide, appearing in many publications and broadcast media including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, VOGUE, BBC, Nine Network Australia and The Guardian. Her masterpieces are held in hundreds of private and public collections across the US, Australia, Europe and Asia and have been exhibited in galleries across the US and Australia.
Concetta’s ability to perceive and express a far greater spectrum of colors, (than those with regular vision), through her paintings, is the result of an extremely rare condition. Her “super vision’, is known by the scientific term of Tetrachromacy, or as a 2022 article in the Wall Street Journal reported ‘the rare gift of seeing extra colors’. Created by a genetic mutation passed through the X chromosome, tetrachromats have four types of cones in their eyes (most humans have three), which allows them to perceive up to 100 million more colors than the average person.
The scientific phenomenon of Tetrachromacy was first discovered in 1948. Concetta’s particularly strong case of Tetrachromacy was documented in a study conducted by the University of California in 2016 “K.A Jameson: Human Potential for Tetrachromacy). Studies of her rare gift are ongoing.
Concetta first established The Salon of Art Gallery in San Diego, California in 1995 as a showcase for her large body of work and one of the world’s first live painting event spaces for over 30 years.
At this time Concetta is the world’s only known Tetrachromatic artist, making her paintings highly collectable and extremely rare. As the Huffington Post commented, “And fortunately for us – she paints!”. Concetta currently lives and works between San Diego and Sydney.
You can visit her headquarters, public gallery and studio located at 7655 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, San Diego, California Thurs – Sat 11am – 6pm & other days by appointment.
Original works and prints by Concetta Antico are available for worldwide shipping at www.concettaantico.com
