BIOGRAPHY
Patricia grew up in Bellport, a small village on the south shore of Long Island NY, and never wanted to be anything other than an artist. She was writing stories and illustrating them at 6 years old so it was natural that she majored in fine art and art history in college. Her family, which included several artists, was always inspired and surrounded by art, music, theatre, and adventure travel. Her art studies in high school included photography and her father set up a darkroom for her in their home. Planning to major in photography at SUNY New Paltz, Patricia took a ceramics class and was hooked on the more tactile arts. Although she ended up earning her B. A. in Art History, she took classes in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Patricia also did a year of graduate studies in Museum Curatorship at Syracuse University.
Since 1994, Patricia has exhibited her artwork at juried shows in museums and galleries around the US and in China, Taiwan, Mexico, Italy, Hungary, and Ukraine. Her artwork has been exhibited at the US Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia from 2002 to 2004 and US Embassies in Myanmar and Kuala Lumpur from 2021 to 2023. Two of her artworks were juried into the online collection of the Library of Congress in 1994. In 2005, Patricia was chosen to be an Artist-in-Residence for a month in Balatonfured, Hungary. Patricia has also had her artworks published in 5 books and featured in 12 magazine articles. In 2012, she was invited to be a featured artist and teacher in Tainan, Taiwan and also in Beijing, China in 2015. Included among the dozens of awards that Patricia has won for her art, she won a Niche Award in 2008 and again in 2013. The State of New Mexico has purchased and installed 12 of Patricia's landscapes as part of the Art in Public Places Program at various sites around New Mexico.