{"id":139963,"date":"2025-08-12T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139963\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:16:13","slug":"la-jolla-painter-who-can-see-100-million-colors-has-new-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139963\/","title":{"rendered":"La Jolla painter who can see 100 million colors has new exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA JOLLA \u2013 Celebrating 30 years of trailblazing arts education, impressionist oil painter Concetta Antico \u2013 who started in a 400-square-foot space in Bird Rock \u2013 now owns a La Jolla Village art gallery.<\/p>\n

Antico started out initially at age 5, painting with oil on canvas and copying works of the French impressionists. In 1995, she opened one of San Diego\u2019s first fine art retail studios,\u00a0Art Tours\u00a0&\u00a0Artshops\u00a0in Bird Rock. It was a bold move, given that few female artists were launching art spaces at the time.<\/p>\n

Today, this apostle of impressionism continues her mission of passing along her favored art style to those of all ages. That is accomplished at her new La Jolla-based\u00a0Salon of Art Gallery<\/a> at 7655 Fay Ave. <\/p>\n

Her gallery, next door to The Lot and across the street from The Conrad, is where she paints, leads oil painting workshops, and holds plein air sessions, as well as community gatherings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis space came up; it had been vacant for five years since COVID,\u201d said Antico. \u201cIt had been a kid\u2019s gym, and a friend told me about it, and here I am, back in La Jolla. But I\u2019d never been in the Village before.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a good spot,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019ve been here almost a year. A lot of locals as well as tourists are coming in, and I\u2019m selling art to people from all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The artist says that she donates 5% of everything she sells to Rady Children\u2019s Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Through hard work and determination in eight different locations over the past three decades, Antico has parlayed her artistic and business skills into a lifelong career creating and teaching oil painting. A testament to her teaching skills, her students\u2019 artworks grace her gallery.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people come in and say, \u2018You\u2019ve got a big shop,\u2019\u201d Antico said, \u201cAnd I say, \u2018It\u2019s taken my whole life to get to this spot.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t hurt that this Australian-born artist, known as \u201cThe Color Queen\u201d for her rare gift of functioning tetrachromacy, can see colors indistinguishable to those with normal color vision. <\/p>\n

While the average human with\u00a0trichromatic<\/a>\u00a0vision can perceive approximately one million colors, tetrachromats, who possess a fourth type of cone cell in their eyes, are estimated to be able to perceive up to 100 million colors.<\/p>\n

Antico is presently the world\u2019s only known, functioning, and scientifically endorsed tetrachromatic artist, which makes her paintings highly collectible and extremely rare.<\/p>\n

Of her professional calling, Concetta said: \u201cI want to give the gift of art and perception and enjoying color and creativity to other people. And I have. I\u2019ve taught over 25,000 people how to paint in San Diego for over 30 years. I was the first person to put fine art in the San Diego Unified School District and have after-school art programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noting that she is \u201cpurely an oil painter who doesn\u2019t dabble in anything else,\u201d Antico said she teaches oil painting in the classical method, \u201cthe way the masters painted, like Monet and Rembrandt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of her French-inspired impressionist style, Antico said: \u201cIt\u2019s an impression of that subject, my impression of that subject. Impressionism is one of the more favored (art) styles. People love that style of painting because they can see something in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although her favorite color is turquoise or violet, Antico said that she also likes white because white is \u201call colors.\u201d She added, \u201cI love the subtle nuances of white.\u201d<\/p>\n

Concetta likes to do her paintings in one sitting. \u201cAll the brush work is one time \u2013 there are no corrections,\u201d she pointed out.<\/p>\n

How many paintings has Concetta done? So many, she said, that it\u2019s difficult to even estimate. <\/p>\n

But even what is more important to her, Antico said, is offering knowledge. \u201cI have many students who\u2019ve gone on to become professional artists. I\u2019ve always wanted to teach people what I know, and that\u2019s very satisfying. Teaching is a very special thing. When you give your gift to someone else, you change lives. I took the skills that I learned in university, and then took my passion to paint, and melded those together to create a process that makes it very easy for people to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ethereal Beauty<\/p>\n

Concetta Antico\u2019s newest public exhibition, \u201cEthereal Beauty,\u201d will open Saturday, Aug. 30, with a VIP opening reception from 7-10 p.m. at The Salon of Art at 7655 Fay Ave. The event is free, with an RSVP required\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA JOLLA \u2013 Celebrating 30 years of trailblazing arts education, impressionist oil painter Concetta Antico \u2013 who started…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1037,8067,1582,276,83647,3548,83648,21031,83649,3549,7264,83650,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-139963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-artist","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-concetta-antico","14":"tag-la-jolla","15":"tag-oil-painter","16":"tag-rady-childrens-hospital","17":"tag-salon-of-art-gallery","18":"tag-san-diego","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-tetrachromacy","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115016458964589865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}