Continuing the Fall 2025 Fine Arts Lecture Series, the MassArt Graduate Programs and the 2D and 3D fine art departments are pleased to welcome Carrie Patterson. Please join us in the DMC Lecture Hall at 12:00pm on Wednesday, November 5. 

Carrie Patterson (American, born Tokyo, Japan) has for over twenty years developed a daily perceptual painting practice that engages her mind and body, creating geometric paintings that are poetic, physical translations of space. She earned a BFA in Studio Art from James Madison University, an MFA in Painting from The University of Pennsylvania, and was a student resident at the New York Studio School where she worked with second generation abstract expressionists Charles Cajori, Mercedes Matter and Rosemarie Beck. Her work has been exhibited nationally, with solo shows at The Painting Center (New York, NY), Mary Baldwin University (Staunton, VA), Southwest Minnesota State University Art Museum (Marshall, MN), AxD Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Boyden Gallery at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and many other public spaces. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Kathryn Markel Fine Art (New York, NY), The Painting Center (New York, NY), The New York Studio School (New York, NY), the Katzen Art Center, American University (Washington, DC) and many more. Her work has been written about in the Washington Post, City Arts New York Press, Abstract Art Online, Geoform Abstract Art, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Patterson was elected to membership at The Painting Center and served for many years on the Executive Board. A longstanding advocate for the arts, Carrie is the founder of the gesso, a college consulting company for creative teens, and volunteers her time and expertise to many arts organizations. She currently serves on the board of Mt. Gretna School of Art. Patterson is the author of Visual Literacy Skills: How to See a lecture series for The Great Courses, The Teaching Company. In 2021, Patterson was awarded an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. In 2020- 2023 she served as the Steven Muller Distinguished Professor of the Arts at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where she is a tenured Professor of Art. She lives and works in Silver Spring, Maryland.

This event is free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image detail: Carrie Patterson, Barely A Trace No. 5, 2023