Art & Art History
Department

Bio:

Carrie Patterson was born in Tokyo, Japan.  She earned a B.F.A in studio art from James Madison University and an M.F.A in painting from The University of Pennsylvania. In addition she was a student resident at The New York Studio School. Her work has been exhibited across the country in venues such as The Painting Center in New York City, First Street Gallery in New York City, Bowery Gallery in New York City, Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York City, Boston University, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art in Philadelphia, Washington Art Association in Washington Depot Connecticut, Bendheim Gallery in Greenwich Connecticut, The Museum of Fine Art in Tallahassee Florida, The Museum of Art in Asheville North Carolina, and The Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg Virginia.  Internationally she has exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogota Colombia. Ms. Patterson has received a Seedling Painting Award for her work from The Leeway Foundation for the Arts and a Virginia Governor’s Fellowship to The Virginia Center for Creative Arts in 2003. Over the past ten years her work has been selected for exhibition by prominent painters such as Sean Scully, Bill Jensen, John Walker, Graham Nickson, and Barbara Grossman. Her paintings consider how color, form, and line metaphorically measure the human condition as experienced through the body. She is an Associate Professor of Art at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where she teaches classes in drawing, painting, color, Introduction to Visual Thinking. To see more of her work go to www.thepaintingcenter.org or www.carriepatterson.com.

Education:

1998: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA - M.F.A. Painting
1996: New York Studio School, New York, NY - Student Resident in Painting and Drawing
1992: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA - B.F.A., Painting, magna cum laude
1991: British Institute, Florence, Italy - Study Abroad

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught:

• ART 105: Introduction to Visual Thinking
• ART 204: Introduction to Drawing
• Art 206: Introduction to Painting
• ART 233: Drawing Through Architecture
• ART 304: Advanced Drawing
• ART 306: Advanced Painting
• ART 339: Painting and Drawing from Life
• ART 493/494: St Mary's Project in Studio Art
• ARTH 367: Color Theory
• CORE 101: Picturing Stories

Recent Scholarship

In 2010, Patterson exhibited fourteen paintings in the exhibition titled Color Autonomy, curated by Robert Donovan of UMUC at the Federal Courthouse in Greenbelt, MD. Patterson’s work is included in the exhibition Visual Play: 5 Contemporary Painters in St. Petersburg, Florida and a two-person show in November at AxD Gallery in Philadelphia PA. 

In 2009 Patterson's work was exhibited in a three person exhibition titled Placing Color (catalog essay by Vittorio Colaizzi) that traveled to Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery at Bristol Community College, Sherman Gallery at Boston University, The Painting Center in New York City, Watkins Gallery at Winona State University, and our very own Boyden Gallery at St. Mary's College of Maryland. At most venues, Patterson participated in gallery talks and panel discussions with artists: Kayla Mohammadi and Brett Baker. During the summer of 2009, her work was also selected by artist Sean Scully for a group exhibition titled Open City at The New York Studio School in New York City.