Patricia's profile
Patricia Buck is an American abstract painter based in Maryland, known for large-scale color field paintings and mixed-media works exploring phenomenal energy.”
She has an MFA from Howard University, College of Art, in Washington, DC, and a BFA in Studio Art from the U of MD.
Maryland State Arts Council awarded her a grant in 2025, and her painting Bulls-eye was included the Survey of Women Artists in the DMV Exhibition, curated by F. Lennox Campello. Her painting Stasis is included in the 2025 Art Biennial sponsored by the Howard County Arts Council.
Joe Hirshhorn purchased her work in 1981, which is catalogued by the Hirshhorn museum, and her work is in the State of Colorado Public Art Collection. Her art is in numerous private collections in New York, Chicago and Seattle, Florida, Maryland and Washington, DC.
Colorado Council on the Arts awarded her a fellowship in photography at Anderson Ranch, and she has received grants from the Arlington Arts Council, plus five grants from the District of Columbia Commission for the Arts and Humanities, including two Individual Artist grants.
Her focus in art continues to be working with color and form to depict various elements of phenomenal energy.
