Patty Smith
ARTIST STATEMENT
I address, identity, courage, fear, condense, and self-doubt in my drawings, prints and animations, Sometimes playful, sometimes profound. I draw on current events and personal experience for inspiration. In 2012 I began collaborating with French artist/animator, Claire Fouquet. Together we have produced prints, documentary films, and artists' books. While concept is fundamental to my work, process and materials contribute significantly. The meditative practice of building drawings and prints, the mark making, the evolution of one image to the next, edition printing and the resulting multiples are all integral to the representation of my ideas.
BIO
Patty Smith is an artist/printmaker and book artist who lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally, including in New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Venice, Paris, and Tokyo.
She is included in print and special collections at numerous institutions and libraries such as, the Bibliotheca Alexandria, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Yale University and the Philadelphia Museum of Art,. She has been an artist-in-residence at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice Italy, the Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, The Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland and In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma CA.
Smith is Professor Emerita, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia where she was the Coordinator of Printmaking, Director of the MFA Book Arts/Printmaking program and Professor of Fine Arts. She is currently on the board of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia and the American Color Print Society. She earned a MA from the Philadelphia College of Art, (the University of the Arts), studied Japanese woodblock at the Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo Japan and earned a BA from Immaculata. College.
Still Falls the Rain, Monotype
Abraham and Isaac, Monotype
On the Other Side, Artist Book
Journey 1, Monotype
Sandra, Woodblock