Education:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago ~ BFA
Lois Dodd painting workshop 2010, 2011, 2017
Rodger Bechtold painting workshop 2012
Stuart Shils painting workshop 2014
Artist Statement:
Patricia Bertha-Mattingly received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has lived and exhibited in Chicago, Mexico City, England, California and Wisconsin.
She works in various mediums.
Her oil paintings are primarily landscapes, often of modest subjects, that begin with small studies painted at some location, time of day or season that sparks enough interest to get her going. She feels seeing something ordinary and making it extraordinary is the challenge to painting outdoors.
She has recently rekindled an interest in dry point etching thanks to the support of Studio 224. These images often evolve from sketches of esoteric astrological and Sabian Symbols ancient in origin and related to horoscopes of people in her life.
Selected Juried Exhibitions
1981 ~ East Anglia Artist Open Exhibition The Fermoy Center, King's Lynn, England
1984, 1986, 1987 ~ Northern California Open Show, Sacramento, CA
1987 ~ Honorable Mention
1985 ~ After Hours Art, Rara Avi Gallery, Sacramento, CA ~ Honorable Mention
1987~ Window Installation, Chicago Books, NYC, sponsored by the NEA
1988 -1990 ~ Annual Open Show, The Roseville Art Center, Roseville, CA
2010 ~ All Things Green Cedarburg Cultural Center, WI
2011 ~ Birds of a Different Feather Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI
2011 - 2020 ~ Annual Juried Exhibition Cedarburg Cultural Center, WI
2015 ~ Honorable Mention
2017 ~ First Place
2012 ~ Water Show Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI
2012 - 2017 ~ Cedarburg Plein Air Competition Cedarburg Cultural Center, WI
2014 ~ Lake Moon Festival Concordia University Wisconsin Honorable Mention
2011 - 2022~ The Little Show Cedarburg Cultural Center, WI
2014 ~ Honorable Mention
2016 ~ First Place
2019 - Second Place
2022 - Honorable Mention
2015 ~ MOWA Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
2016 ~ The Same But Different Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI
2017 ~ Paint the Market, Port Washington, WI Second Place
2017 ~ From the Studio, Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI
2018 - The Modern Landscape, RedLine Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2018-2019 ~ ArtServancy (Mary L. Nohl grant) Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI