Patricia Buck

About the Artist

Patricia Buck was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. She received a BFA in studio art at University of Maryland in College Park with a minor in art history, and her MFA from Howard University in Washington, DC. She has had two works purchased for Art in Public Places in Colorado, and received grants from Colorado Council for the Arts, Robert Rauschenberg's Change Inc., Arlington Arts Council, and five grants from the District of Columbia Commission for the Arts & Humanities including two Individual Artist grants, and three Technical Assistance grants. The emphasis of her art continues to be using color and form to show the phenomenal aspects of unseen energy.

Artist's Statement

I was a resident of Washington from 1983-1996.  Please see resume. From 1991-1995, the DC Commission on the Arts (DCCAH) awarded me five grants; two Individual Artist grants (1993, 1995), and three Technical Assistance grants (1991, 1993, 1994). In 1993, I invited Sam Gilliam to my studio to discuss my art. After seeing my art and resume, Sam recommended I apply to Howard University’s (HU) MFA program. I enrolled in 1993. While at Howard, I studied the diaspora with Dr Tritobia Benjamin. I studied ceramics with Winnie Owens Hart, photography with Winston Kennedy and painting with Al Smith and Edgar Sowrells Adewale. Using the consortium program I also studied ceramics with Turker Ozdagan at George Washington University, and Feminist Art History and Culture Wars in graduate seminars at University of Maryland. Washington artist Renee Stout, and Dr Floyd Coleman, art department chair, served as my thesis advisors. I graduated in 1996. With the artist Menucha, I exhibited collaborative installations including Tharsis Station Mars, 2098 at Blagden Alley; ‘Hers’, at Washington Women’s Art Center (WWAC); ‘Hers,’ at both the University of Maryland, and at Arlington Arts Center. My art is documented in WWAC exhibitions catalogs from shows juried by Linda Roscoe Hartigan, May Stevens, and Mary Beth Edelson, respectively. The painting Power Form, which exhibited at the WWAC, was included in the Alper Initiative on Washington Art-Washington Women’s Art Center at Katzen Museum/Gallery, at American University in 2018. I donated my best work, ‘Demons without Faces’ to a Benefit Auction at Washington Project for the Arts, and Joe Hirshhorn purchased it.  After his passing, the work was transferred to, and cataloged in the Hirshhorn Museum collection. Maryland State Arts Council awarded me a grant in 2025.