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Art History 2010
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Art Resume 2010
Education
Parsons School of Design, Fashion Illustration, New York City 1964-65
National Fine Art Academy @ Art Students League, Life Drawing & Painting, NYC
1965-68; studied with Vaclav Vytlacil in 1972.
Solo Shows
AyzhaFineArts.com Presents "Commentary: Paintings by Patricia Obletz, Reception at Chic,131 N. Jackson Street, Milwaukee -- October 2010, from 1 pm to 5 pm. Online Milwaukee through September 2010
Stump Town Gallery, Alma, WI. September-October 2009
Meritage, Wauwatosa, WI. September-December 2009
Gallery 2622 "The Music in Art," Wauwatosa, WI June 2009
City Hall Lobby "Horse Worship," Milwaukee, WI October 2008
Signature Image, Anti-Stigma Bus Campaign Sept.-Nov. 2008, 07, Chicago &
Milwaukee; Jan-April 2007, Milwaukee
Reuss Federal Building Lobby, Milwaukee, WI May-June 2007
Footlights cover art: Chicago; Madison; Milwaukee, Spring/Summer
In Tandem Theatre, Equus, UWM Peck School of the Arts, Milwaukee, Mar-April 2007
Art Bar, Milwaukee December 28, 2005-January 19, 2006
Guerilla Gallery, Milwaukee September 18 - November 15, 2005
Group Shows
MARN Salon IV, Sharon Lynne Wilson Center, Brookfield January 22-24, 2010
"Big, Bold & Beautiful," Creative Expressions Art Gallery, Mequon
December 11-January 28, 2010
"The Intimate Page," Portrait Society, Milwaukee November 13-January 4, 2010
Ayzha Fine Arts Gallery Night with Chicago Collectors, Milwaukee July 24-25, 2009
Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Jan. 16-Feb. 8, 2009
"Artworks," Ayzha Fine Arts Gallery Night & Day @ Harambee, Milwaukee Oct. 16,
2009; Jan. 16, 2009
Milwaukee Times Newspaper Black Excellence Awards Dinner, Ayzha Fine Arts
Presents Fine Art, Milwaukee February 2009; 08
WVA Juried "Issues Drawing & Print Show," Walker's Point Center for the Arts
Jan. 16-Feb. 28, 2009
WVA "Portraits," Northwestern Mutual Gallery, Cardinal Stritch Sept.-Oct 2008
"Womanly Ways," Gallery Grand, featured artist, 604 N. Water St., Milwaukee
July 25-Sept. 30, 2008
SE WPS Juried Membership Spring Show, Cedarburg Cultural Center April 23-
May 25, 2008
"Bare V," DeLind Gallery, Milwaukee Jan.-Feb. 2008
"Art-Ology," Ayzha Fine Arts Milwaukee May 24, 2008
WPS Prints & Drawings, Ozaukee Art Center February 2008
ABEA Invitational, "Relationships and Love," Walkers Point Center for the Arts,
Milwaukee Jan. 21-Feb. 28, 2008
Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI Nov. 2007 -Jan. 08
ArtBar, "Small Works," Milwaukee, WI Nov.-Dec. 2008; "Fear" Oct. 2007
WP&S Juried "Time" Exhibition, Steenbock Gallery, Madison, WI July-Sept. 2007
Museum of Wisconsin Art, Juried WPS SE Chapter Show West Bend, WI May 23 - July 15, 2007
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Walker's Point Center for Arts Gallery
May 2007
Uihlein Peters Gallery, Milwaukee March-April 2007
ArtBar Portrait Exhibition, Milwaukee February-March 2007
Kiefert Portrait Exhibition, Reuss Federal Plaza, Milwaukee January-Feb. 2007
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, "Utopia," Sheboygan, WI. June-September 2006
Annual Niagara Frontier Juried Art Exhibit, Kenan Center Gallery. Lockport, NY
May 2004
Collectors' Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2000-04
Welland Gallery of Ideas "Real Art Horse Show," Ont., Can. April 2004
College Street Gallery, Buffalo, NY May 2004; 03
Stuyvesant Gallery, Buffalo, NY January-June 2004
In Living ColorPaintings by Obletz; Photography by Gene Witkowski; Fibre
Design Forum, Wilcox Mansion Gallery, Buffalo, NY October 2003
Art Dialogue Regional Juried Fine Art Show, Buffalo, NY August 2003
Featured by:
www.delindgallery.com/website/index.php?section=43 January 18-February 23, 2008
www.ArtInWisconsin.com September-December 2007 editions
blogs.jsonline.com/artcity/archive/2007/09/27/mental-illness-campaign.aspx
www.shepherd-express.com/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2007-02-01&-token.story=176298.113121&-token.subpub=
www.Saatchi-Gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist/details.php?id=7040
Riverwest Currents, April 2009;January 2006, Milwaukee
Tales from Love & Madness documentary featuring my paintings and memoir,
produced and directed by LeVert "Bugsy" Threats Jr, X-Facta Films Productions
release in 2010
Milwaukee ArtBeat, talk show at Hide House, April 3, 2009
"Creative Forces TV" organizer/host, produced & sponsored by Milwaukee Access
Telecommunications Authority, channels 14/96 May 2008 and continues to air and at www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/PeaceOfMind/CreativeForcesTVShow
Mental Health Awareness Campaign, signature image, bus signs Milwaukee and
Chicago buses, partnering with Clear Channel Outdoor and Titan Worldwide 2007-08
Art In Wisconsin, September/October 2008; November/December 2007; 2006; September/October 2007
Washington Park Beat, Jan-Feb and April/May 2007, Milwaukee
Shepherd Express, February 1, 2007; Shepherd Express, January 5, 2006, Milwaukee
"That's What I'm Talking About with Cassandra McShepherd," WBLK talk radio August 15, 2005
Capital Times, June 6, 2005, Madison, Wisconsin
ArtVoice, 5.13.04; 10.9.03; 10.23.96, Western New York/Ontario, Canada
Pulse Niagara, Ontario, Canada, 4.22.04
The Buffalo News 2.3.04; 4.13.03; 4.9.01; 5.28.96, Buffalo, New York
Buffalo Spree Magazine, April-May 2003
ArtScope! National Telly Award-Winning local talk show, March-April 2004; June 2003
By the People talk show, CBS affiliate, February 2003
ArtViews local talk show, March 2002
"Samara Studios represents a long list of local artists, including accomplished favorites such as Patricia Oblitz, Tim Decker and John Sayers."
-- Mary Louise Schumacher, Art Critic, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Cue" front page, August 14, 2010
"Patricia Obletz' art is a bracingly buzzing expressive mode that rides on her human creativity and electricity rather than a plug mechanically sucking from an AC outlet. (It) helps us to rediscover our humane, life-affirming energy in an electro-gizmo fixated age that may kill us off as we text ourselves to death behind the steering wheels of our self-created four wheel coffins."
Kevin Lynch, Pulitzer-nominated arts writer, September 30, 2009
"The Impossible Teapots by Patricia Obletz are vibrant and don't follow the rules of teapot designs the spouts curve and bend to the side, over the top of the pot, or under, providing a strong and playful sense of animate objects."
Melanie Hupfer, Riverwest Currents, April 2009
"I never tire of my (Obletz') painting, Through the Woods. It is brilliant. An endless maze. Its atmosphere of tension and mystery is a little bit frightening. Her art is compelling and sometimes has a dark side. Always interesting, it resonates with truth."
Mike Nussbaum, Chicago, stage and screen actor, June 2008
"In Tandem Theatre's production of Equus has . . . some good eye candy in the lobby . . . a series of horse paintings by artist Patricia Obletz . . . I was immediately put into some kind of equestrian trance . . . "
Jonathan West, "Artsy Schmartsy," mkeonline.com, March 30, 2007
"Haunting."
Lisa Kaiser, Shepherd Express, Feb. 1, 2007.
"Obletz' somewhat abstract Origins 2004' hints at haystacks with a Monet-like splendor..."
Kevin Lynch, Capital Times, June 15, 2005
"Obletz' work is unmistakably unique for its extreme, vibrant color play . . . (the) odd colors of Piet Mondrian's pre-geometric paintings and the thick, painterly texture of Jackson Pollock that she applies to subjects like landscape and horses make her work unique." Jenny Santomauro, ArtVoice May 13, 2004
"Patricia Obletz uses oil and oil sticks to striking effect."
Joanna Manning, Pulse Niagara, Ontario, Canada, April 22, 2004
"Obletz' oil paintings range in subject from vast landscapes to portraiture to horse worship. In a modern-Seurat petit point style . . . non-traditional . . . oil stick paintings, particularly The Red Horse,' are thick and sculptural . . . "
Jenny Santomauro, ArtVoice, October 9, 2003
"Short List: 19 artists mentioned by more than one collector."
Cynni Gaasch, ArtVoice Oct. 9, 2003
"Strong: Power of the image. Depth and radiance of the matter and color. Mystery of the inner/outer duality. (The) horse works have a special poetic and spiritual dimension."
Wade Stevenson, owner of an Obletz; gallerist, Stevenson Galleries, Paris, Paris & Buffalo, NY Dec. 2003
"Obletz' art is so strong I can hear it communicate."
Susan Scholterer, director, Buffalo-Niagara Cultural Tourism Bureau July 2003
Grant Awards:
Wisconsin Arts Board/National Endowment of the Arts Community Collaboration
Grant 2008 to create "Colors of Self," a traveling mural in partnership with
Transitional Living Services 2008
MPS Art grant through Walker's Point Center for the Arts 2007 to facilitate my
"Colorplay" program at grade schools to inspire creativity and have fun by playing music making doodles we don't watch with colors we grab without looking.
Erie County Department of Mental Health to organize and host "Heart and Spirit
Matters" at Impact Artists Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2002-04
Erie County Department of Mental Health to facilitate my "Colorplay" 2000-04 for:
BryLin Hospital
WNY Independent Living Project
Good Shepard Church day campers, ages 8-12
Collections
Jane Adam and Don Schneider
Ann & Thayer Bigelow, Manhattan Reggie & Fred Bushkin Ft.
Lauderdale, FL.
Julie Brudlos, Chicago, Il.
David Boucher & Stephanie Shipley,
Milwaukee, WI
Stephen Brumder, Brookfield, WI
Donna Burdge, Miwlaukee
Anthony Cardinale, Buffalo
Catherine Detmers, Clearwater, FL
Thomas Eagon, Wausau, WI
Donna & Dan Emelity, Mukwonago
Norma & Jules Ferrand, Buffalo
Mr. & Mrs. William Greiner, Buffalo
Evy and Joe Harman, Staunton, VA
Becky & David Heile, Milwaukee, WI
Susan Isoe, Chicago
Jerome Jahns, Brookfield, WI
Anne Jost, Milwaukee
Katharine Jost, Chicago
Mary Kay Jou, Piscataway, NJ
Susan P. Keenan, Buffalo
Bambi Korchunoff, Milwaukee
Andrew Laidlaw, Chicago
Cynthia and Patrick Lee, Buffalo
Kimberly LuangPakdy
Brad Luff
Sue Neidrauer
Anne and John Neville
Julie & Mike Nussbaum, Chicago
Preston Ormsby, Palm Springs, CA
Heather Peterson, Elgin, IL
Meg and Tad O'Rourke, Buffalo
Shirley Posner
Nancy Boll Price
Francine and Jerry Rizzo
Susan and Clint Rodenberg, NYC
Ellen Hart, Philadelphia, PA
Milton Rogovin, Buffalo
Sue Russell, West Bend, WI
Amy Hoeffel
BJ Skoning, St. Charles, IL
Ronald Somogyi, Buffalo
Warren Stark, Santa Barbara, CA
Carla Steinberg, Inverness, CA
Wade & Lori Stevenson, Buffalo
Abe and Wendy Tarapani, St. Thomas, VI
Susan Trafton, Milwaukee
Elizabeth and Stephan Vogt, Milwaukee
Karen Welch, Buffalo
Amy and Milton Zeckhauser, Buffalo
Erie County Crisis Services, Buffalo
WNY Independent Living Project
Buffalo Greyhound Adoption, Inc. "Emma in Color" notepaper
O'Connell & Company Theater Jane
Volunteer
"Taste of Harambee" helping kids paint faces for rain barrels donated by Milwaukee Sewer Department - August 14, 2010
Alfons Gallery Advisory Board, School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee since January 2010
National Alliance on Mental Illness' "Creativity Heals," organizer November 2009
Diva by Diva, O'Connell & Co. Theater, Supporting Cast Member; Scenery Artist 2004
Crisis Services "Draw the Line" poster art contest: strategic planning committee member; juror; artist of signature image 2003
LogoQuest, logo art contest juror, sponsored by Partnership to End Violence in Childhood & Youth, c/o EPIC 2001
Activist for Spiritual Freedom through Art since 1991
Memberships
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Burchfield-Penney Art Center
John Michael Kohler Art Center
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museum of Wisconsin Art
Oil Painters of America
Society for Arts in Healthcare
Walker's Point Center for the Arts
Wisconsin Visual Artists
Artist Statement 2010
As a 21st Century Expressionist, I paint what I cannot photograph, turning internal/external complexities into tangible visions. Color inspires my compositions, and their energy and depth. Each new work begins with random marks, each new layer urging evolution until one turn of the support reveals one subject that dominates the whole. Every new work thrills me with its unexpected presence and the challenge of its evolution.
My subjects arrive in streams of consciousness, where self-awareness disappears, connecting my spirit to God: Performance Artists; Social Commentary; Earth; Abstractions; Horse Worship; Impossible Teapots; Story Teller's Chairs, and more. Each new painting builds on previous work with different yet consistent progressions of color exchanges, proportions, movement, and texture, sometimes launching a new series.
I thinned oils and mixed them on palettes with brushes and palette knife until 1993, when my neck was broken in a car accident. Five years later, using body weight to propel oil pastels on small sketch pads, mixing and shaping them with fat-handled kitchen tools, the joy of painting again was mine. The size of my support and my range of motion increased as physical therapy continued and again I could stand and paint on canvas with oil sticks and tube oils, moving and mixing them with my hands and the fat-handled tools.
What influences my work goes beyond art school and art history courses to current events, accidents and the rhythms of classical and contemporary music, Mahler to Dylan to McFerrin. Art museum and gallery tours from California to Russia connect me to past and current art worlds.
Like many artists, I use my art to advocate for social justice and raise awareness of spiritual freedom through the arts and education. |
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