Carrie Patterson

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, Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto California, 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 and Winsor Gallery in Vancouver Canada. 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. Her paintings consider how color, form, and line metaphorically measure the human condition as experienced through the body.

Art Historian Vittorio Colaizzi observes about her work based on a historic chapel in Maryland, “For Patterson, architectural interiors are sites of intensified awareness, where one can feel one’s being most acutely in relation to the planes and volumes one traverses.” She is an Associate Professor of Art at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where she teaches drawing and painting.