JEREMIAH PATTERSONOBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS

NOVEMBER 6 – DECEMBER 6, 2012MERCY GALLERY - RICHMOND ART CENTER

THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL - WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT

JEREMIAH PATTERSON

OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS

NOVEMBER 6 – DECEMBER 6, 2012

MERCY GALLERY RICHMOND ART CENTER THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT

In addition to my admiration of Italian Renaissance Art, I also love the Dutch and Flemish masters, and I make every effort to capture a like richness of form, texture, and color in my own paintings. I strive to paint deeply into the forms in my work and into the spaces around them, working layers of color up towards a textural surface from within the area’s inner structure, successively trying to pull eve-rything out of each form that I see. I love the direct process in-volved in watercolor painting, working one color over another to add richness, complexity, and luminosity to the whole work.

My primary compositional concern is to have the arrangement feel natural, as if the viewer just happened upon everything that is there, and all remains well within the realm of our normal life’s possi-bilities. In addressing this concern, I arrange my settings to feel comfortable, in that the positions, poses and subjects seem natu-ral, possible, and realistic. In this way, I also avoid overt fantasy and work hard to find the fine point between idealizing a form and the gritty realization of its minute details. In choice of subject, I some-times make subtle reference to certain themes I find in Italian Ren-aissance or Flemish paintings, working to create compositions, which may touch on these timeless themes, but do so by revealing them in a contemporary, modern, and realistic way. My composi-tions have explored allegorical themes such as “The Four Sea-sons”, narrative themes such as “The Annunciation”, as well as what I call my, “Kitchen Still Life Compositions” in which the combi-nation of still life objects are the ingredients in a favorite recipe. I hope that the themes within my work remain subtle in their presen-tation, playing a small part in an image that highlights a beautiful moment in time during our 21st century life.

I made my first watercolor still life under the instruction of Sondra Freckelton at her workshop during the summer of 1992, and now, some twenty-years later, I am still thoroughly enamored by the unique transparent watercolor process that enables me to lend life to a group of objects.

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The Still Life Watercolors

Indian Summer, watercolor, 40” X 60”

A Winter’s Day, watercolor, 40” X 60”

Daffodils & Pear, watercolor, 31.5” X 20” Still Life with Giraffe, watercolor, 38” X 24”

Amaryllis, watercolor, 34.5” X 23”House Plant, watercolor, 33.5” X 22”

Twin Red Pears, watercolor, 8” X 8”Twin Tomatoes, watercolor, 8” X 8”

Snapdragons and Pears, watercolor, 12.5” X 9” Dead Cardinal & Suicide King, watercolor, 13” X 10”

Reflections, watercolor, 31.75” X 23” Easter Still Life, watercolor, 24” X 18”

Pears and Pewter Cup, watercolor, 10” X 13”

Still Life with Red Mullet, watercolor, 14” X 17.5”

Candy Sticks and Cookies, watercolor, 8.5” X 6.5” Pear and Cherries, watercolor, 7” X 5”

Peaches, watercolor, 8” X 9” Pear and Peach, watercolor, 7” X 7”

Yellow Apples, watercolor, 13” X 13”

Independence Day, watercolor, 24” X 18”

After the birth of my daughter Anna in late September 2001, shortly after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, I (like I’m sure many others) felt a strong need to search further in my work, be-yond the themes and arrangements I was able to pursue with the inanimate objects of a still life. The objects were things, and those things were suddenly just that, things. I knew I wanted to portray the inner spirit of what I painted.

A journey that began with pencil drawings of my daughter Anna in the first hours of her seeing the world inside the hos-pital room, eventually led to a series of figurative paintings and portraiture. These works enabled me to continue to be involved, and further delve into stories and themes from Ren-aissance work that I loved, all the while bringing them into the future of our 21st century life. The use of the figure was a new challenge, a means to further study and learn ways to depict its form and explore the range of emotions bound in a subtle glance.

My three large figurative paintings selected for the exhibition involve stories and people from the past, depicted as if they happened today, capturing the moment just before they take a course in their lives which will forever mark their histories.

The newest work in the exhibition, a portrait of my daughter Anna, was finished just a few days after her 11th birthday.

The Figures

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Salome, watercolor, 38” X 48”

Visitate (the visitation), watercolor, 36” x 56”

Incontro (the encounter), egg tempera on panel, 44” X 66”

Portrait of My Daughter, Melanie, terracotta, 16” X 14” Portrait of My Daughter, Anna, watercolor, 24” X 18”

I am most fond of the watercolor medium. In my studio I em-ploy a methodical and layered approach to watercolor paint-ing, each work taking several weeks, and sometimes months to complete. However, watercolor is also a medium that can capture quickly and directly, making it perfectly suited to the looser and faster approach of a travel painting. In addition, its ability to be packed compactly makes carrying a whole studio of materials around in your pocket quite possible. I also carry a journal while traveling, in which I jot down notes to myself as a way to remember the places and stories that I encounter. This exhibition includes several excerpts from these travel journals, written at a coinciding time to the paint-ings shown.

The 24 plein-air landscape works on display represent a se-lection of travel paintings done over the past fifteen years, the collection of which now consists of well over 100 paint-ings. I began making these paintings as a way to explore the affects of space and light on color. They were a way for me to save the memories of my travel experiences, documenting fleeting moments in time during my visits to Italy, Sicily, and France. They were also a way for me to paint simply for the sake of painting. For the most part, these were done as a personal pursuit and, except for showing them to the people with whom I’ve traveled; these paintings have not otherwise been widely seen.

The Plein-air Watercolors

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Assisi Sunset, 7” X 10”

Cefalu Fog, 7” X 10”

Theater of Taormina, 7” X 10”

View of Etna from Taormina, 6” X 10”

View of Etna from Taormina, 6” X 10”

Segesta, 7” X 10”

Mount of Olives Monestary, 7” X 10”

Tuscan Farm, 7” X 10”

Certaldo Geraniums, 7” X 10”

Gangivecchio Wall, 7” X 10”

Jeremiah Gardner Patterson Born: July 27, 1971, Hartford, CT

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007 Silent Memories, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Memoirs of Place, Borgia Gallery, College of Our Lady of the Elms, Chicopee, MA (traveling)Memoirs of Place, Art Center Gallery at Miriam Hall, Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA (traveling)

2003 Quiet Reflections, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Quiet Observations, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY2000 Jeremiah Patterson-Recent Work, Taub Hall Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT Poetic Spaces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY1997 Silent Moments, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY1996 Watercolor Memories, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY1995 Jeremiah Patterson: Recent Works, Hart Gallery, Northampton, MA 1993 Jeremiah Patterson: Watercolors, Hart Gallery, Northampton, MA

MUSEUM GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 A Celebration of Fine Art, 1950 – 2010, Academic Artists Association 60th Anniver-sary Invitational Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA

2007 The Art of Collecting, Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI 2006 Contemporary American Realism-2006 Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN (catalog)2004 Regional 2004, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY (two awards)2003 Representing Representation VI, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY (catalog)2001-02 Representing Representation V, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY (catalog)1999-00 Director’s Choice, Albright-Knox Art Museum, Buffalo, NY1997-98 Director’s Choice, Albright-Knox Art Museum, Buffalo, NY The Art of Collecting, Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI1996 1996 Collector's Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK1995 Collector's Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK

JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Flora & Fauna - Narrative through Iconography, Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, SUNY Geneseo, NY

2012 Academic Artists Association 62nd Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary Realism, Karen Sprague Cultural Center, Springfield, MA (award)2005 Academic Artists Association 55th National Exhibition of Contemporary Realism, First Church Gallery, Springfield, MA (award)2004 Regional 2004, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY (two awards)2002 Academic Artists Association 52nd National Exhibition of Contemporary Realism, First Church Gallery, Springfield, MA (award)1993 Open Show, Canton Artist Guild, Canton, CT (two awards)1992 Open Show, Canton Artist Guild, Canton, CT (award)

TRAVELING GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002 Egg Tempera: An Enduring Tradition (catalog) Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami Dade Community College, FL Mary Washington College Gallery, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA Wisteriahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA

1999-2000 Religious Art: 2000 + Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

1996-97 EXPEDITION: American Rivers The Soul of the Connecticut Connecticut River Museum, Essex, CT Center for Art and Earth, New York, NY Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 A Sense of Place – Works from the alumni of Jack Beal & Sondra Freckelton Workshops,Viviana Hansen Gallery, Franklin, NY

Objects of Art, Beardsley Gallery, Wilton, CT Esprit de Femme, Beardsley Gallery, Wilton, CT

2009 Small Sizes - Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NYFlowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NYA Moment’s Beauty, Beardsley Gallery, Wilton, CTInaugural Group Exhibition, Beardsley Gallery, Wilton, CT

2008 Contemporary Realism 2008, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OKWatermarks II Invitational, The ARTS Gallery, Collin County Community College, Plano, TX

2007 Tempera: Ten, Arno Maris Gallery, Ely Center – Westfield State College, Westfield, MA Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2006 13th Annual Realism Invitational 2006, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NMContemporary Realism 2006, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OKStill Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MAX: Decade, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MASummer Show, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MAGallery Artists, Elm Tree Gallery, Franklin, TN

HAS Faculty Show, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2005 Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA Flowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY The Four Seasons, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Painting=Poetry-ut pictura poesis, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY HAS Faculty Show, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT

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2004 Contemporary American Realism VII, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK The ADAA Art Show – Armory New York, Valley House Gallery (booth),

Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY Flowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY The Four Seasons, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Gallery Artists, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA HAS Faculty Show, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT

2003 Works on Paper, Valley House Gallery (booth), Park Avenue Armory, NY The Figure, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

Flowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Painting=Poetry-ut pictura poesis, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Inaugural Group Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA HAS Faculty Show, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT

2002 Beyond the Apple & Bottle Still Life Invitational, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX Interiors & Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

Inventing Reality: An Exhibition of S.O.N.E.R.A – The Society of New England Representational Artists, Elements Gallery, Rockland, MEFlowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

Small Sizes – Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Painting=Poetry-ut pictura poesis, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Mainely Maine, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY The Figure, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY HAS Faculty Show, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT

2001 American Contemporary Realism III, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK Small Sizes – Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

Gallery and Invited Artists, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Mainely Maine, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

Flowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY The Four Seasons, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY 5 Years, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

Work: 2001 Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT

2000 Holiday Show, Gallery MAC, Manhattan Athletic Club, New York, NY Small Sizes – Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Tonal, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Favorite Selections from S. French Gallery, Gallery MAC, New York, NY Gallery and Invited Artists, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Contemporary American Realism III, M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK

Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA Flowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

Painting=Poetry-ut pictura poesis, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY HAS Faculty Show, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT

1999 Still Life, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK Small Sizes – Precious Pieces, Gallery MAC, Manhattan Athletic Club, NY Flowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Small Sizes – Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

Annual Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT

1998 Art in Bloom, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT

Still Lives, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA Pears and Other Pleasures, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Small Sizes – Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Flowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Those Who Can Do ... And Teach, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT

1997 Collector's Choice, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL Annual Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT Small Sizes – Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Gallery and Invited Artists, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

1996 Small Sizes – Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY American Realism, Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN The Painted Menagerie Images of Animals in Contemporary Realism, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Gallery and Invited Artists, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Flowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition 1996, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

1995 16th Annual Graduate Group Show, Hampden Gallery, UMASS, Amherst, MA Mass Appeal: Art from Beantown and Beyond, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Small Sizes – Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Mainely Maine, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Flowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY EXPEDITION: Maine 1995, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY Collector's Choice, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL Gallery 57: Preview Exhibition, Arts Alive Gallery, Springfield, MA

1994 15th Annual Graduate Group Show, Hampden Gallery, UMASS, Amherst, MA Facing Reality, Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH Town Grown/Town Shown, Hart Gallery, Northampton, MA

1993 Junior/Senior Awards Show, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1992 Junior/Senior Awards Show, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1991 CANSON/ARCHES Fifth Invitational Watercolor Exhibition, Hart Gallery, Northampton, MA Castles and Kings, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

COLLECTIONS ART OVERSEAS, New York, NY

Art & Interiors, Inc., New York, NYCanson, Inc., South Hadley, MAGalman Lepow Associates, Inc., Cherry Hill, NJMinneapolis Neuroscience Institute, Minneapolis, MNNorfolk Southern Co., Norfolk, VAThe Office of the Deans at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MAWellington Management Company LLP, Boston, MA

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AWARDS

2012 Bob Kadis Watercolor Award, Academic Artists Association 62nd Annual National Exhi- bition of Contemporary Realism

2010 City of Ragusa: Medal of Art & Culture, presented by Francesco Barone, minister of Art & Culture for the City of Ragusa, Sicily

2005 Academic Artists Award, Academic Artists Association 55th National Exhibition of Con-temporary Realism, First Church Gallery, Springfield, MA

2004 Ted Van Brunt Memorial Award, Regional 2004 Exhibition, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY Elmira Regional Art Society Award, Regional 2004 Exhibition, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

2002 Top Prize in Watercolor Painting, Academic Artists Association 52nd National Exhibi-tion of Contemporary Realism, First Church Gallery, Springfield, MA

1993 Collinsville Trader Bank Award, Canton Artist Guild Juried Open Show, Canton, CT

1992 Collinsville Trader Bank Award, Canton Artist Guild Juried Open Show, Canton, CT

1991 Fleet Bank Award: Grand Prize, Canton Artist Guild Open Show, Canton, CT

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