- Artist's Statement
- “I am fascinated by biological imagery I have encountered in researching the physiological processes of cell deterioration, death and rejuvenation, as well as fossils and stratification. The images I find combine with shapes reminiscent of the stone walls around Nashville and of Rocky Mountain boulders in a new juxtaposition. To convey this strange beauty, I rely upon chance in the printmaking processes I use: aqueous monotype involves the floating of pigment on a thickened water base and lowering the paper onto it, and polylithoplate lends itself to loose toner washes which are then manipulated with sprays of rubbing alcohol or Windex. On panels, I float oil paint on a hot water base to obtain wild biomorphic shapes.”
- Biography
- Patricia Jordan graduated from Watkins College of Art & Design in 2004 with a BFA in fine arts, concentrating in printmaking and painting. She combines her love of fabric and feminine arts such as quilting with her printmaking to explore issues of biological aging and death in the context of geological time. Her work was exhibited in a solo show at the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt, Spring Semester, 2006, and has been represented in group shows at Twist Gallery, Plowhaus Gallery, Plate Tone Printshop, Secret Show Series, and Watkins College of Art & Design. In Montana in the early 1990s, her fiber art was shown in juried exhibitions. She has turned to her love of art following a successful twenty-year legal career.
- Degrees:
- 2004 BFA Fine Arts Watkins College of Art, Design & Film
- 1980 JD University of Denver
- 1974 BA Macalester College
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