Patricia Buck
Columbia, MD
Patricia Buck is an American abstract painter based in Maryland, known for large-scale color field paintings and mixed-media works exploring phenomenal energy.
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Patricia Buck is an American abstract painter based in Maryland, known for large-scale color field paintings and mixed-media works exploring symbolic language and phenomenal energy. She holds an MFA degree from Howard University, College of Art, and a BFA in Studio from University of MD.
Joseph Hirshhorn made a direct purchase of her work in 1981, which was bequeathed to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and is documented in their collection.
Her artwork was selected for the program cover of The World Bank International Conference on Women in Bejing 1992.
She has been awarded grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation-Change Inc., Arlington Arts Council, several Technical Assistance Grants from the D.C. Commission for the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH), and two Individual Artist Grants from DCCAH. The State of Colorado selected two of her artworks for the Art in Public Places Program, and Patricia was awarded a fellowship in photography at Anderson Ranch from the Colorado Council on the Arts.
In 2025, the Maryland State Arts Council awarded Patricia a grant. Her work was recently curated into 'A 2025 Survey of Women Artists of the DMV' curated by F. Lenny Campello. Howard County Arts Council also chose her work, Stasis for inclusion in the 2025 Art Biennial. Her work has been juried into group shows by May Stevens, Mary Beth Edelson and Linda Roscoe Hartigan.
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My art practice is informed by decades of studio work, art historical research, and metaphysical inquiry. Rather than relying on literal visual narrative, and quotidian experience, she relie ons color, pattern, visual rhythm and spatial tension to evoke subliminal, physiological responses in the viewer.
My art is created during focused, meditative studio sessions where gesture, material, color and physical movement are central. The meaning emerges through an act of making marks, when color and composition form visual relationships in a language that is beyond words.