Patricia Tewes Richards
Everything I paint is based on intense looking and my fascination with the natural world.
My process is taken from Pierre Bonnard and involves sketching and prolonged observation, which leads to a painting based on memory and my sketches and watercolors. I use my background in scientific observation in my painting practice, often focusing on small objects and scenes we overlook.
I have shown my work at Artport Kingston, Scope Miami Beach and after studying at the New York Studio School and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I earned an MFA degree in Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2020.
I practiced medicine as an anesthesiologist and neuropharmacology researcher.
EDUCATION
School of Visual Arts
MFA 2020 Thesis: Landscape Painting in the Anthropocene
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2017
The New York Studio School 2015-2017
University of Chicago
MD 1982
Honors: Outstanding female medical student
University of Chicago
Ph.D.
Thesis: Effects of d-Amphetamine and Diazepam on Human Behavioral Response 1981 Area of Concentration: Pharmacology and Physiology
University of Chicago
BA 1976
Major: Biological Sciences
Honors Thesis: Metabolism in B. Subtilis (undergraduate award for best thesis)
AWARDS/GRANTS
2019 State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Artist Development Award 2019 Rokeby Artist Development Lab, Ferrisburgh VT
GROUP SHOWS (selected)
2022-Anything Goes, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota Florida
2020- Artport Kingston, Kingston New York
2020-2020 Visions-School of Visual Arts juried graduation show
2019-Uncharted, Sarasota Florida
2019-SVA Flatiron Gallery New York New York
2018-Scope Art Fair, Art Basel Miami
2018- Open Season, National Juried Show, Sarasota Florida 2017-Florida’s Finest, Sarasota Florida
ARTS PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND PRESS
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Modern Language Association, Panel, Painting the Plantocene, January 2021.
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Antennae, the Journal of Nature and Visual Culture. Botanical Impressions Ed. Giovanni Aloi. V. 51, pages 184-193, Summer 2020.