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Quint Gallery is pleased to present a group of three paintings by Patricia Patterson at 7655 Girard Avenue. Created between 1988 and 1990, they depict imagery from everyday life on Ireland's Aran Islands. In her early 20s, while studying art at Parson’s School of Design in New York, Patterson embarked on the beginning of her career-long relationship with the Aran Islands, visiting over months and years, living with and befriending a tight-knit community of families. She picked up the language and spent her time painting their stone-wall lined landscapes, tenderly tracing their domestic lives and depicting interactions that revolved around their bright and active kitchens, and the small farms that sustained them. Usually framed by a two-tone wooden artist's frame, Patterson's paintings are recognized for the fast and loose brushwork that conveys much information and immediacy, and for making use of intensely bright hues of casein paint that often exaggerate the realism of her subjects.
Patricia Patterson’s work has been shown in numerous museums including the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the San Diego Museum of Art, and MOCA Los Angeles. She completed public commissions for INSITE’s 1994 and 1997 editions, and in 2000, completed An Enclosed Garden at the Carlsbad Flower Fields for their Color Project. Patterson lives in the beach community of Leucadia in Encinitas, CA.
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