ARTIST INFORMATION
About the Artist
Fiel Patricio is an artist based in York, Pennsylvania. She has returned to exhibiting locally and nationally with great success after a long absence. She creates abstract and experimental mixed media works using water-based mediums and intergrating collage, linocuts, woodcuts and printmaking into her art.
She has studied under Othmar Carli, George M. Clark and Claire Gblin.
She has participated in several juried, group and solo exhibitions. The most recent oned have been at the Philadelphia Water Color Society's 109th Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art in Collegeville, PA (2009) and the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition's First Annual Juried Show, "Wide Open" in New York (2010). In 2009, she was also juried at the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery at Lebanon Valley College in Anneville, PA and a recipient of the Rottler Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts presented by the York Art Association.
This year she attained signature status into the Baltimore Watercolor Society of which she is a member. Other memberships include The Philadelphia Water Color Society, National Collage Society, Art Association of Harrisburg, Susquehanna Art Museum and York Art Association.
She is currently represented by City Art Gallery in York, PA, Garth Gallery in Columbia, PA and Handy Concepts Art Gallery in Red Lion, PA.
Fiel is also a published photographer whose works have been included in the 4th Edition of Schmap New York Guide and were also released for the iPhone® and iPod Touch® in 2008. She is a current member of the York County Camera Club.
Her philosophy in life as well as in art is to "Be an advocate for graceful simplicity."
She is currently doing a Lomography project. Her photos mostly consist of places (travel), objects, animals, and abstracts.
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Memberships*, Affiliations & Organizations
- Art Association of Harrisburg *
- Baltimore Watercolor Society *
- Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
- City Art Gallery
- Cosas Gallery
- Garth Gallery *
- Handy Concepts Art Gallery *
- National Collage Society *
- Philadelphia Water Color Society *
- Susquehanna Art Museum *
- The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
- The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery
- York Art Association *
- York County Camera Club *
Testimonials & Articles - What other says about Fiel and her work.
- by Claire Giblin (Judge for the 2009 Rottler Award Selection Exhibit)
"Fiel Patricio's vertical studies of horizontal line reveal the artist's skilled understanding of collage. The works play with the viewer's imagination by slowly revealing their underlying elements. There is something very elegant produced by transparent color being dragged across the surface. Between these lines we notice marks of brilliant color which we "read" apart from their established routes. Successful strong works."
- by Richard Ressel (Judge for the 2009 Abstract Show - "It's Out There!" - 'And I Dream')
"The background has the look of a layered stratification, combined with the earthy colors, it looks like something in the natural world; but the superimposed simple lines and shapes create a real interest. It has a Miro quality without imitating him."
- by Gerald Mead (ArtVoice article "Art Clip, Place & Paste", June 2007)
"... Generally, the simpler approaches are the most successful in this show, such as one of the award-winners, Pennsylvania artist Fiel Patricio’s An Inner Promenade, with its black-and-white acetate image of trees overlaying handwritten text and flanked by torn paper borders of delicate bright green leaf patterns. It achieves complex illusory effects and intriguing combinations of materials with a modicum of elements."
Read more: http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n26/clip_place_and_paste#ixzz0qdPdwIq0
Selected Shows and Exhibitions:
2010
- June-July : Group Show - "American Spirit" Exhibition @ Garth Gallery
- June : Group Show with 30 PA Artists @ Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg, PA
- March-April : Group Show - Invitational Abstract Exhibit @ Garth Gallery
- March-April : Shared Show with the 2009 Rottler Award Winners @ York Art Association
- March : Juried Show - The First Annual Open Juried Show "Wide Open" by Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in NY
- January-February : Group Show with York Art Association Gallery Group Artists @ Allegro Wine Gallery
- December : Works accepted @ Handy Concepts Art Gallery
- November : Featured Artist @ City Art Gallery
- October-December : 109th Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper of PWCS @ Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art - Ursinus College
- October : 39th Annual Open Juried Exhibit @ YAA
- October : SOLO Show @ Evensong Antiques and Enhancements
- October : Group Show with Connie De Alva Higgins @ Cosas Gallery
- September : Annual Fall Members' Exhibit @ YAA
- September : Group Show with Connie De Alva Higgins @ Cosas Gallery
- August (Oct-Dec 2009) : 109th Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper of PWCS @ Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art - Ursinus College
- August : SOLO Show @ Moon Dancer Vineyards and Winery
- July : Rottler Award Selection Exhibit @ YAA *
- June : "It's Out There!" Abstract Art Exhibit @ YAA *
- April-May : 38th Annual Juried Art Exhibition @ The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery (LVC)
- April : 103rd Annual Spring Members' Exhibit @ YAA *
- March (ongoing) : Selected Works @ City Art Gallery
- March-May : Annual Spring (Group) Show @ Studio Gallery 234
- February-March : "Art in the Garden" The Mid-Atlantic Garden Show @ York Expo Center (Juried) *
- January-March : Group Show with Marion Stephenson & Tom Scullin @ Studio Gallery 234
* denotes award
Artist Statement(s)
"My creative process has always been instinctive yet measured while my creative sensitivities gravitate towards simplicity. But in every work I do, I try to achieve two goals: for people to enjoy my work and for me to enjoy the journey."
"Art is everywhere. It is something that relates or connects with you visually and emotionally. You just have to open your eyes and other senses. It is also a creation from something good within yourself, no matter what the subject is. If it moves you, that's art. And I also believe that it is not something you find or look for but it is something that finds you."
"Art is my refuge. It has always been a reliable and constant source of inspiration and knowledge. I have been around it and have chosen to be around it. And I am grateful that I have not lost interest. Maybe I have strayed from it, but only because of the realities of life. But ever since I can remember from my first coloring book up until now, even with limited resources (materials), I have been able to find and used anything to create art."
