Carrie Patterson
Carrie Patterson received her BFA from James Madison University in 1992. Shortly therafter, she continued her formal training at the Vermont Studio Center and The New York Studio School. In 1998 she earned her MFA in painting from The University of Pennsylvania where she received the Angelo Savelli Painting Award.
Her paintings reflect the experience of inhabiting space. Patterson is involved with the practice of recording visual events in order to understand the physical and emotional world around us. She uses memories of light and form to create paintings that convey an internal awareness of ones own body in space by distilling shape, line, and color into the simplest components.
Her work has been exhibited in many group shows across the country such as First Street Gallery in NY, Bowery Gallery in NY, Elizabeth Harris Gallery in NY, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art in Philadelphia, Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, CA, The Museum of Fine Art in Tallahassee Florida, The Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg Virginia, Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogota, Colombia, and Washington Art Association in Washington Depot, CT.
Ms. Patterson has received research grants from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, The College of William and Mary, and The Leeway Foundation for the Arts. She also received a Virginia Governor’s Fellowship to The Virginia Center for Creative Arts in 2003. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where she teaches drawing, painting, and Foundations.
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