Patricia Buck
Columbia, MD
My artwork emphasizes color and surface texture to create visually energetic, dynamic paintings. Though abstract, they always convey feeling and meaning.
Message
Patricia Buck was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. She has a master of fine arts degree from the Howard University, College of Art, in Washington, DC, and a bachelor's degree in studio from the University of Maryland.
She received a 2025 Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, and her work is included in the 2025 Arts Biennial sponsored by the Howard County Arts Council, and also included in the Survey of Women Artists in the DMV Exhibition curated by F. Lennox Campello.
Her work is included in the state of Colorado the Art in Public Places, and is catalogued in the Hirshhorn museum. Colorado Council for the Arts awarded her a fellowship at Anderson Ranch, and she has received grants from the Arlington Arts Council, and five grants from the District of Columbia Commission for the Arts & Humanities.
The emphasis of her art continues to be using color and form to show aspects of phenomenal energy.
https://www.patriciabuckart.com/
Statement
My work is my conversation with the world around me. Each piece represents the point where personal experience is filtered through my kinesthetic sensitivity and a conscious awareness of a living moment.
My creative process is spontaneous and intuitive. I paint without planning where the work will go. The method is instinctive, unconscious, and entirely physical; relying upon a strongly associative mind, my internal compass, decades of experience with color and a kinesthetic sense which takes over when a brush saturated with paint, or a marker in my hand meets the surface of a canvas or panel.
My abstract work conveys realities which I cannot put words. Some are subtle, some powerful, some dark, but all represent an energetic reality that is very real, which I articulate in paint.
These acts of ‘making,’ link an inner reality with the physical materials in my hands, in a 'call and response' dynamic which develops into something tangible. When I'm finished, an idea is made manifest. An object exists before me expressing something of my self.