Bio

In 2012, PBS aired the NJN State of the Arts documentary about Pat as an artist and environmentalist. The Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers also produced a documentary about her work as part of the Transforming Lives Series. She is a two time NJ State Council on the Arts Individual Fellow, a Weir Farm Fellow and a Puffin Grant Recipient. Pat's work on endangered birds received the Curators award at the Chesterwood Museum, a residency at I-Park, a solo show and commission at the Efroymson Conservation Center in Indianapolis and a solo show and residency at The Evansville Museum. Pat believes her work is a visual voice for the natural world in this uncertain time of climate change. She wants the viewer to see that nature is messy, tangled, linear and mysterious. She builds constructions using nature's debris. These hand-built free-standing sculptures are inspirations for her collages and drawings. Her work is available through Carter Burden Gallery in NYC, Beauregard Gallery in Rumson NJ, and Windsor Gallery in Coltsneck NJ.