Baker Artist Portfolios

Patricia Buck was born and raised in
Baltimore, MD. She began painting
at an early age, and received awards
in high school for painting and poetry.

Patricia attended University of Maryland
to study painting with Hank Nitsche.
She received the college of art
J P Wharton Award for Excellence in Art
during her sophomore year and
graduated with a minor in art history
and a Bachelor's in Studio Art.

Patricia worked in advertising from
1971 until 1983 when she
moved to Washington DC. She
maintained a studio and lived at
1801 16th St, NW, the historic
Somerset House.

After establishing a studio
she painted her first series
on paper, Glyphs & Diptychs
which exhibited in the Washington
Project for the Arts Open
Studio Program in 1990.

Patricia was an active member of the
Washington Women’s Art Center and
her work was documented in exhibition
catalogs juried by Linda Roscoe
Hartigan, MaryBeth Edelson,
and May Stevens.

In 1981, Joseph Hirshhorn purchased her
torn paper diptych ‘Demons without
Faces’ at a benefit auction for
Washington Project for the Arts. The
work remains in the Hirshhorn
Museum collection.

In 1987, Patricia studied at the
Corcoran School with Leon Berkowitz,
the Washington Color School artist.

Work from that time with Berkowitz
exhibited in ‘Figure as Image, Figure
as Symbol’ at TouchStone Gallery, in 1988,
and her paintings received notice
in ArtNews.

Patricia's over-sized painting
'Diversity Glyph' was awarded 2nd place
by Willem DeLooper at the Artist's
Equity Members exhibition held at
TouchStone Gallery in 1990. She also
exhibited at Rockville Civic Center
Mansion, Gallery K, and
Olshonsky Gallery.

In 1993, Sam Gilliam visited Patricia's
studio and recommended she apply to
the masters program at Howard University
College of Art..

Once enrolled, Patricia studied with
Edgar Sorrells Adewale (painting),
Al Smith (painting), Dr. Tritobia Benjamin
(art history), Winston Kennedy (photography)
and Winnie Owens-Hart (ceramics).

Dr Floyd Coleman, and Washington artist,
Renee Stout were her thesis advisors.

Howard University engages in a
consortium arrangement with American
University, George Washington University,
and the University of Maryland,
and Patricia used that opportunity
to study feminist art and contemporary
'culture wars' with Dr. Josephine Withers
(University of Maryland), and ceramics with
Turker Ozdagon (George Washington University).

She received a Master of Fine Arts
degree in 1996.

Patricia relishes exploring all mediums,
including painting, photography, mixed media,
installation art with audio, and periodically
working in clay.

She has received a grant from the
Rauschenberg Foundation, two
Individual Artist grants from the
DC Commission for the Arts & Humanities,
three Technical Assistance grants
from the DC Commission for the Arts &
Humanities, and a grant from
Arlington Arts Council.

Patricia attended Vermont Studio Center
in 1991, where she prepared for
'Holding the Sacred,’ a solo exhibition
at Alla Rogers Gallery in Washington, DC.

The Colorado Council for the Arts awarded
her a scholarship at Anderson Ranch in
Snowmass, Colorado, to study with Jim Goldberg
(‘Raised by Wolves’) and Philip Brookman
(then curator of New Media at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art) for a workshop
in 'Photographic Story-telling'.

Her artwork ‘Collecting Vessel,
a multiple print monotype appeared
on the cover of the 'Report of
International Women’s Month at the
World Bank March 8-March 30, 1994’
in Bejing, China.

In 1994, Patricia was studio assistant to
Marjorie Moore in drawing & painting
at Haystack Mountain School
of Crafts in Maine. In 1995, she also
served as studio assistant to Paula
Winokur in ceramics at Haystack.

After graduating from Howard University
in 1996, Patricia moved to Denver with her
long-time partner. Denver has a dynamic
artist community, and Patricia was accepted
as a member at Pirate, and Edge
Cooperative Galleries.

Patricia exhibited annually, beginning
with the series 'Big Women', at Pirate
in 1997, followed by the installation
'Genetics/Memetics' at Pirate in 1998,
and 'American Girl War’ (using ideas
developed at Anderson Ranch) which
exhibited at 'Emerging Forms' in
Edge Gallery in 1998.

In 1997, the Alternative Arts Alliance,
a non-profit art organization hired
Patricia as executive director.
During that time the organization
was awarded numerous monetary
and in-kind grants by Colorado Council
for the Arts and the Scientific and
Cultural Fund of Denver to support
the non-profit to train a
Board of Directors, and to present
multiple exhibitions for artists
in Colorado. As director of AAA
she developed and raised funds
to present a two-day ‘Open Studio Tour’
and produced a printed catalog to
feature Denver artists.

In 2000, Patricia returned to the
East Coast, and exhibited
'Genetics/Memetics' at Artomatic, 2002.
The installation was photographed and
appeared on the front page of the
Style section in the Washington Post.

In 2013, Patricia was studio assistant
to Norman Akers in drawing and painting
at Penland School of Crafts, NC

In 2016 she returned to Penland to study
representational painting with
John & Ruth MacKah.

Patricia taught “Painting Small,”
a miniatures class at Howard
County Arts Council in 2018-19.

The artist currently accepts students
to study in her studio in Columbia, MD.