Resume 2010
Patricia Obletz
2147 N. 53rd Street
Milwaukee, WI 53208-1008
414-444-4579
www.OilsByObletz.com


Resume 2008

Education

Buffalo Seminary, Buffalo, NY — Four Years
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Il. — Three Years
Parsons School of Design, Fashion Illustration, New York City — One Year
NFA @ Art Students League, Life Drawing & Painting, NYC — Three Years
New York University, BA. History, NYC — Eighteen Months


Employment

Manhattan

MGM's 2001: A Space Odyssey, assistant to Sales Promotion Director — Nine Months
Seventeen magazine's "Abigail Wood": one of three responding to reader letters and writing the column — Two Point Five Years
Sew Business Magazine, layout and ad copy — Seven Months
DeKrig Advertising: receptionist;fashion and beauty copywriter — Twelve Months
Modern Bride: Sales Promotion copy writer — Fifteen Months

Chicago

Two retail chains: Fashion copywriter — Fashion/Special Events Dir. — Five Years
Helene Curtis Ind., Inc.: copy supervisor — Four Point Five Years
Ad Agencies & Retailers: Freelance ad/pr copy — Nine Months
Temporary Agency: clerical work; law firm receptionist — Eleven Months

Buffalo


Burchfield-Penney Art Center, store manager — Six Months
Mental Health World award-winning quarterly journal; founding editor — Seven Years



Milwaukee


Won Wisconsin Arts Board/National Endowment of the Arts Community Collaboration Grant 2008 to create a traveling mural in partnership with Transitional Living Services Clients — 2008

Volunteering*


Milwaukee, WI. — September 2004 to present:

"Creative Forces TV" Panel I, organizer/moderator, Milwaukee Access Telecommunications Authority, channels 14/96 — May-June 2008
Washington Park Beat, editor/writer — June 2007 to present
Mental Health Awareness Campaign 2007 on Milwaukee and Chicago bus tails in partnership with Clear Channel Outdoor and Titan Worldwide.
Art In Wisconsin, interviewer— since November 2006
Children's Hospital Mental Health Advocates Committee — since June 2007
Created "Colorplay" to help people unwind, have fun and inspire their imagination through colors and doodles while exchanging brief upbeat personal or fictional stories, never looking at the colors for selection or at their doodles. Some groups were established through grants awarded to Walker Point Center for the Arts and Milwaukee Public Theater:


— Kagel Elementary School
— Spanish Immersion School
— Fratney Elementary
— Our Space, Inc.
— Walker Middle School of the Arts
— Wilson Senior Community Center
— Neighborhood children


Buffalo, NY — Sixteen Years


Diva by Diva, O'Connell & Co. Theater, Supporting Cast Member; Scenery Artist
Activist for Spiritual Freedom through Art — since 1991
Won grants* for and organized first three "Heart & Spirit Matter Fine Art Exhibition, panel discussions with mental health and art experts @ Impact Artists' Gallery
Catholic Charities' Creative Edge Art Therapy Program Advisory Council
Mental Health Peer Connection Agency Advisory Council
BryLin Hospital Art Committee
Community Charter School "Colorplay" Classes: Fourth Graders
Impact Artists Gallery: publicity; president, board of directors
Crisis Services "Draw the Line" poster art contest: strategic planning committee member; juror; artist of signature image
LogoQuest, logo art contest juror, sponsored by Partnership to End Violence in Childhood & Youth, c/o EPIC
Created "Colorplay"** with grant from the county department of mental health to help people unwind by exchanging fact or fiction stories while doodling on paper with bright colors, never looking at the colors for selection or at doodles:
— BryLin Hospital
— WNY Independent Living Project
— Good Shepard Church day campers, ages 8-12
— Colorplay Making Something out of Nothing Workshops @ universities, psychiatric care agencies and conferences — Five Years
Created "Wordshop**" to help people to write about their experiences for a quarterly newsletter to increase self-knowledge and self-respect @
— Del Nor Psychiatric Resource Treatment Center
— Clarkson Center (at-risk youth) — Three Years
Boards of Directors and Committees
— Impact Artists' Gallery, Inc. president, Board of Directors
— Crisis Services, Inc., Foundation Board vice-president; Board of Directors
— Community Services Board of Erie County, as well as other state and local policymaking boards/task forces
— Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Marketing Committee

Chicago, Il. — Twelve Years

Art Institute Information desk — Seven Months

Manhattan, NY — Eleven Years

Bedford Stuyvesant Community Youth Center, painting murals with kids

Buffalo, NY — First Eighteen Years

Children's Hospital, read to and offered books to patients — Three Days

Awards
Crisis Services Media Award 1997

Courage to Come Back Award 1992 — sponsored by United Way; Buffalo News; ABC-TV affiliate Ch. 7

NYU First Prize, Chemistry Art Competition 1969 — juried by HW Janson, art historian; author

** sponsored by Erie County Dept. of Mental Health and WNY Independent Living Project
***"Wordshop: We are the heros of our stories when we dramatize our experiences." (c) 1991 Obletz
Featured by:

www.UndergroundVoices.com — January 2008
www.ArtInWisconsin.com — September-December 2007 editions
blogs.jsonline.com/artcity/archive/2007/09/27/mental-illness-campaign.aspx
www.MilwaukeeRenaissance.com — January 2007 front page
www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/PatriciaObletz/HomePage
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
www.CACOnline.org/gallery.asp?artist=Patricia_L_Obletz#topofviewer
www.igiveup.org/Artist%20List-Western%20US.htm
Art In Wisconsin, 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
Riverwest Currents, January 2006, Milwaukee
"That's What I'm Talking About with Cassandra McShepherd," WBLK talk radio, 8.15.05
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 Spree Magazine, April-May 2003
By the People talk show, CBS affiliate, February 2003
ArtScope! National Telly Award-Winning local talk show, March-April 2004; June 2003
ArtViews local talk show, March 2002


Art History 2007
Education

Parsons School of Design, Fashion Illustration, New York City — 1964-65
NFAA @ Art Students League, Life Drawing & Painting, NYC — 1965-1968

Solo Shows

Tazza Gallery, "Horse Worship," Vliet at 50th St., Milwaukee, WI — since Sept. 2007
Signature Image, Anti-Stigma Bus Campaign — Aug.-October 2007, Chicago & Milwaukee; Jan-April 2007, Milwaukee
Reuss Gallery, 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
West Bank Cafι, Milwaukee — October 2006 to present
Art Bar, Milwaukee — December 28, 2005-January 19, 2006
Guerilla Gallery, Milwaukee — September 18 - November 15, 2005
Studio 1008 Opening Reception, Milwaukee — December 12, 2004
Mid-City Gallery, Tri-Main Center #240, Buffalo, NY — September 2003 - August 2004
Cafι Allegro, Buffalo — May 2004
Sphere Entertainment Complex, Buffalo — Feb.-August 2004
20TH Century Modern, Buffalo — September 2003 – August 2004
Studio 684 Opening, Buffalo — October 1999
East 78 Street Fine Art Gallery, Manhattan — spring 1968
Group Shows
SE WPS Spring Show, Cedarburg Cultural Center — April 23-May 25, 2008
"Bare V," DeLind Gallery, Milwaukee — Jan.-Feb. 2008
Ayzha Fine Arts Consultant, Cynthia Henry, 414-732-6773 — January 2008 to present
Milwaukee Public Market — Gallery Night and Day, January 18-19, 2008
WP&S Prints & Drawings, Ozaukee Art Center — February 2008
ABEA's 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
Amaranth, 3329 W. Lisbon, Milwaukee — since Sept. 2007
Art Bar, "Small Works," Milwaukee, WI — Nov.-Dec. 2007;Art Bar, "Fear" —
Oct. 2007
WP&S Juried "Time" Exhibition, Steenbock Gallery, Madison, WI — July-Sept. 2007
Museum of Wisconsin Art, Juried WP&S SE Chapter Show – West Bend, WI — May 23 - July 15, 2007
Reuss Federal Plaza, Milwaukee — January-Feb. 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
Current Gallery, Menominee Falls, WI. — July-September 2006
WP&S Juried "Time" Exhibition, Steenbock Gallery, Madison, WI — July-September 2006
Milwaukee Art Museum Calatrava, featured image at Parkinson Foundation Gala,
Milwaukee, WI — May 2006
Cranston Gallery Two-Man Show, Milwaukee, WI — April-October 2006
Arts Wisconsin and Department of Tourism video on the positive effect arts have on Wisconsin: Arts Day, March 2; Governor's Tourism Council mid March; Americans for the Arts Conference in Milwaukee, June 1, 2006.
Center for the Visual Arts Annual Midwest Winter Show, Wausau, WI. — January-March ‘06
Milwaukee Art Museum Outdoor Art Market, Milwaukee, WI. — July 30, 2005
WP&S Juried "Roots" Exhibition, Steenbock Gallery, Madison, WI — June-July 2005
WP&S Juried Non-Traditional Self-Portrait, Steenbock Gallery, Madison, WI – December ‘04 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 Color—Paintings by Obletz; Photography by Gene Witkowski; Fibre Design Forum, Wilcox Mansion Gallery — October 2003
Art Dialogue Regional Juried Fine Art Show — August 2003
National Fine Art Exhibition, Impact Artists Gallery — November 2003 & ‘02


Collections

Erie County Crisis Services, Buffalo
O'Connell & Company Theater
WNY Independent Living Project
Buffalo Greyhound Adoption, Inc. "Emma in Color" notepaper
Jane Adam and Don Schneider
Ann & Thayer Bigelow, Manhattan; 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
Norma and Jules Ferrand, Buffalo
Mr. & Mrs. William Greiner, Buffalo
Evy and Joe Harman, Staunton, VA
Becky Heile, Milwaukee, WI
Susan Isoe, Chicago
Jerome Jahns, Brookfield, WI
Anne Jost, Milwaukee
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
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Nussbaum, Chicago
Preston Ormsby, Palm Springs, CA
Heather Peterson, Elgin, IL

Meg and Tad O'Rourke, Buffalo
Shirley Posner
Francine and Jerry Rizzo
Susan and Clint Rodenberg, NYC
Ellen Rogovin
Milton Rogovin, Buffalo
Sue Russell, West Bend, WI
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
Karen Welch, Buffalo
Amy and Milton Zeckhauser, Buffalo
Media

blogs.jsonline.com/artcity/archive/2007/09/27/mental-illness-campaign.aspx
www.MilwaukeeRenaissance.com [scroll down for anti-stigma campaign]
www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/PatriciaObletz/HomePage
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
www.CACOnline.org/gallery.asp?artist=Patricia_L_Obletz#topofviewer
www.igiveup.org/Artist%20List-Western%20US.htm
Washington Park Beat, April/May 2007, profile; February/March 2007 cover story, Milwaukee
Shepherd Express, February 5, 2007; January 5, 2006, Milwaukee
Riverwest Currents, January 2006, Milwaukee
"That's What I'm Talking About with Cassandra McShepherd," WBLK talk radio, 8.15.05
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 Spree Magazine, April-May 2003
By the People talk show, CBS affiliate, February 2003
ArtScope! National Telly Award-Winning local talk show, March-April 2004; June 2003
ArtViews local talk show, March 2002
"Each one of Patricia Obletz' paintings is like a page from her journal."
— Annemarie Sawkins, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Haggerty Museum of Art

"(Obletz') painting, ‘Through the Woods' is brilliant. I never tire of it. It's an endless maze. Its atmosphere of tension and mystery is a little bit frightening. Her art is compelling and often has a dark side. It's 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 . . . I'm not talking about My Pretty Pony or Mr. Ed, though. I'm talking the bold, rippling muscle kind of horse."
— Jonathan West, "Artsty Schmartsy," mkeonline.com, March 30, 2007
"Haunting,"
— Lisa Kaiser, Shepherd Express, Feb. 1, 2007.

"The rich variety and strength of (Obletz') style emerges in wondrous ways."
— Julia Brudlos, Chicago author, produced playwright, Jan. ‘07

"(Obletz') Origins series represents all the wonderful space phenomena one finds in our vast universe, bringing me back to those days with friends at NASA when the space shuttle was first developed and when the early Jupiter and Saturn probes were sent up."
— Warren Stark, Artist, fmr. Naval Officer, Communications Systems Dir., Oct. ‘06

"Obletz' horse paintings are exquisite . . ."
— "Boris & Doris on the Town," Shepherd Express, Jan. 5, 2006

"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 May13, 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 October 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, France & Buffalo, NY — December 2004

"Obletz' art is so loud I can hear it communicate."
— Susan Scholterer, director, Buffalo-Niagara Cultural Tourism Bureau— July 2004

Memberships

Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Milwaukee Art Museum
Oil Painters of America
Society for Arts in Healthcare
Walker's Point Center for the Arts
Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors

Artist Statement 2008



I paint what I cannot photograph. Painting makes tangible my internal/external experiences as life goes forward. Drawing and painting open the door to my spiritual nature, unbridling my passion, free yet safe to enter extremes, driving through experience, imagination and accidents.

Each painting connects me to God. Each begins with doodles radiating from the center, emerging from streams of my consciousness, where self awareness disappears. Each is unpremeditated, always different yet consistent progressions of color exchanges, proportions and textures. My subjects always surprise me, saving me from boredom, adding to existing series, sometimes launching new ones, their common bond the inner/outer dualities of environment and inspiration. I study each work from all sides, continuing to layer on color until one subject dominates. That's when the joy of discovery elates me, and the thrill of challenge begins.
Patricia Obletz 2147 N. 53rd Street Milwaukee, WI 53208-1008 414-444-4579 obletz@sbcglobal.net www.OilsByObletz.com


Resume 2010

Education


Parsons School of Design, Fashion Illustration, New York City — 1964-65
NFA @ Art Students League, Life Drawing & Painting, NYC — 1965-68


Employment

Manhattan 1964-75

MGM's 2001: A Space Odyssey, assistant to Sales Promotion Director — Nine Months
Seventeen magazine's "Abigail Wood": one of three responding to reader letters and writing the column — Two Point Five Years
Sew Business Magazine, layout and ad copy — Seven Months
DeKrig Advertising: receptionist;fashion and beauty copywriter — Twelve Months
Modern Bride: Sales Promotion copy writer — Fifteen Months

Chicago 1975-87

Two retail chains: Fashion copywriter — Fashion/Special Events Dir. — Five Years
Helene Curtis Ind., Inc.: copy supervisor — Four Point Five Years
Ad Agencies & Retailers: Freelance ad/pr copy — Nine Months
Temporary Agency: clerical work; law firm receptionist — Eleven Months

Buffalo 1988-2004

Burchfield-Penney Art Center, store manager — Six Months
Mental Health World award-winning quarterly journal; founding editor — Seven Years


Milwaukee 2004 to present


Featured in Tales from Love & Madness, a documentary produced and directed by LeVert Threats Jr, X-Facta Films Productions to be released in 2010.

Won 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

Volunteering*


Milwaukee, Wisconsin — Since September 2004


MilwaukeeRenaissance.com/PeaceOfMind/HomePage, Founding Editor; sponsored by Milwaukee Renaissance founders — since January 2009
Art In Wisconsin, writer/interviewer — 2006 to 2009
"Creativity Heals" with National Alliance on Mental Illness — November 2009
"Creative Forces TV" Panel Discussion, organizer/host; produced & sponsored by Milwaukee Access Telecommunications Authority, channels 14/96 — since June 2008
Washington Park Beat, editor/writer — June 2007-January 2009
Mental Health Awareness Campaign, bus tail signs for Milwaukee and Chicago buses, partnering with Clear Channel Outdoor and Titan Worldwide — 2007 to 2009
Children's Hospital Mental Health Advocates Committee — since June 2007
Created "Colorplay" to help people unwind, have fun and inspire their imagination through colors and doodles while exchanging brief upbeat personal or fictional stories, listening to music, never looking at the colors for selection or at their doodles. Some groups were established through grants awarded to Walker's Point Center for the Arts; donated stipends to Milwaukee Public Theater:
— Kagel Elementary School
— Spanish Immersion School
— Fratney Elementary
— Our Space, Inc.
— Walker Middle School of the Arts
— Wilson Senior Community Center
— Neighborhood children

Buffalo, NY — 1988-2004

Diva by Diva, O'Connell & Co. Theater, Supporting Cast Member; Scenery Artist
— 2004
Activist for Spiritual Freedom through Art — since 1991
Won grants* for and organized first three "Heart & Spirit Matter Fine Art Exhibition"; panel discussions with mental health experts and artists @ Impact Artists' Gallery, Tri-Main Building — 2002-2004
Advisory Council, Mental Health Peer Connection Agency – 2003-04
BryLin Hospital Art Committee — 2003-04
Community Charter School "Colorplay" Classes – Fourth Graders – Spring 2004
Fine art publicity: Impact Artists' Gallery, #545, 2495 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14214; 716-835-6817; president, board of directors — 2002-04
Crisis Services "Draw the Line" poster art contest — committee member; juror; signature image — 2002-03
LogoQuest 2001 logo art contest juror, sponsored by Partnership to End Violence in Childhood & Youth, c/o EPIC — 2001
Catholic Charities' Creative Edge Art Therapy Program Advisory Council — 2003-04
Created "Colorplay"** with county department of mental health to help people unwind by exchanging fact or fiction stories while doodling on paper without selecting the colors or watching what they doodle — 2000-04
— BryLin Hospital
— WNY Independent Living Project
— Good Shepard Church day campers, ages 8-12
— Colorplay Making Something out of Nothing Workshops @ universities, psychiatric care agencies and conferences — 2000-04
Created "Wordshop**" to help people to write about their experiences for a quarterly newsletter to increase self-knowledge and self-respect @
— Del Nor Psychiatric Resource Treatment Center
— Clarkson Center (at-risk youth)
Boards of Directors and Committees
— Impact Artists' Gallery, Inc. president, Board of Directors
— Crisis Services, Inc., Foundation Board vice-president; Board of Directors
— Community Services Board of Erie County, as well as other state and local policymaking boards/task forces
— Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Marketing Committee — 1990

Chicago, Il. — 1975-1987
Art Institute Information desk — Seven Months

Manhattan, NY — 1964-1975
Bedford Stuyvesant Community Youth Center, painting murals with kids — 1966

Buffalo, NY — 1943-1961
Children's Hospital, read to and offered books to patients — two days in 1961

Awards
Crisis Services Media Award 1997
Courage to Come Back Award 1992 — sponsored by United Way; Buffalo News; ABC-TV affiliate Ch. 7
NYU First Prize, Chemistry Art Competition 1969 — juried by HW Janson, New York University professor of art historian; author

Featured by:

www.delindgallery.com/website/index.php?section=43 — January 18-February 23, 2008

www.undergroundvoices.com/UVObletzPatricia.htm — January 2008
www.ArtInWisconsin.com — September-December 2007
blogs.jsonline.com/artcity/archive/2007/09/27/mental-illness-campaign.aspx
www.MilwaukeeRenaissance.com — January 2007
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
www.CACOnline.org/gallery.asp?artist=Patricia_L_Obletz#topofviewer
www.igiveup.org/Artist%20List-Western%20US.htm
Riverwest Currents, April 2009;January 2006, Milwaukee
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, 8.15.05
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
LIVE Interviews:
Milwaukee ArtBeat, talk show, April 3, 2009
By the People talk show, CBS affiliate, February 2003
ArtScope! National Telly Award-Winning local talk show, March-April 2004; June 2003
ArtViews local talk show, March 2002
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 Vytacil in 1972.

Solo Shows
Ayzha Fine Art Celebrates National Women's Month with Patricia Obletz
Milwaukee, WI — March 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

"Abstractions," featured artist, Creative Expressions Art Gallery, Mequon —
July through September 2010
Ayzha Fine Arts @ North Milwaukee State Bank, Milwaukee Fon du Lac Avenue office;
Brown Deer branch — February 2010
MARN Salon IV, Sharon Lynne Wilson Arts Center, Brookfield — January 22-Feb. 19, 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 Color—Paintings 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
— written and shot April-May 2009; release date to be announced
Milwaukee ArtBeat, talk show at Hide House, Bayview, Wisconsin — April 3, 2009
"Creative Forces TV" organizer/host, produced & sponsored by Milwaukee Access
Telecommunications Authority, channels 14/96 — airing at intervals since May 2008; 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 — November/December 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
"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') brilliant painting, Through the Woods. It is an endless maze in an atmosphere of tension and mystery; 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 May13, 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 — December 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 and Brian 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

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; they include 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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