Patricia Walsh

Statement of a Journey

Patricia Walsh

• LONG AGO while visiting museums in Europe, I discovered the underlying beauty and clarity of forms found in great paintings - and the not-so-great forms in lesser ones. My spiritual quest through the years has been to find these forms in my own voice

• ATTEMPTS AT ABSTRACTION in the early years were too much like what other artists had done. I turned to observable figures, landscapes, corners of rooms, windows anything that I could manipulate, arrange and color for my own needs.

• THERE WAS MORE I wanted to do with color and depth of field than images would allow. I started working with broken color and made field paintings with contrasting edges. These became too easy and I stopped working.

• I STOPPED. I started again, slowly experimenting with "found" forms and colors to make the body of work I am now engaged in.

• I HAVE DONE woodcuts, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and design work. Oil paint is for me, the only medium that allows discovery and change on the piece as it progresses towards - and one hopes gets to - that "ah hah" moment when one’s inner life is reflected with richness and truth.

Patricia Walsh

BIO AND RESUME

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Education

MFA Syracuse University

BA College of Mt. St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Oh.

Postgraduate studies: Art Studentís League, N. Y.,

Catholic University, Washington D.C.

University of the Americas, Mexico City

Group Exhibition

Cleveland Museum of Art

Rochester Memorial Art Gallery

Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo

Northwest Printmakers. Seattle

Arleigh Gallery, San Francisco

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, N.Y.

Oakland Museum

Opts Art Gallery, San Francisco

Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek

One Person Shows

Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco and Los Angeles

Canada College, Redwood City

Walnut Creek Civic Arts

Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco

Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley

Mepkin Abbey, Charlotte, S.C.

Professional Positions

California College of the Arts, Professor Emeritus

Nazareth College, Rochester N.Y., Assistant Professor

Taught classes at Studio One & Two, Oakland; Walnut Creek

Civic Arts; College of San Mateo

Dayton Art Institute; Education Dept. and instructor, Art School

J.W. Winterich Co.; stained glass artist

Liturgical Design Work and Commissions

Interior plan and furniture design for:

Christ the King Catholic Community, Las Vegas

Holy Names College Chapel, Oakland

St. Jeromeís Church, El Cerrito

Sacred Heart Church, Hollister

St. Clementís Church, Hayward

St. Maryís Church and temporary cathedral, Oakland

Paintings for;

St. Timothyís Church, Trenton Mi.

St. Anneís Church, Las Vegas

Christ the King Catholic Community, Las Vegas