BIO

Patti Jordan is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice integrates two- and three-dimensional analog and digital processes to investigate relational identity, focusing on the self and its broader connection to the natural world, particularly our human ecotone. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally. In 2025, she presented her solo exhibition, Benthic Elegies, at the Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, NJ. In 2023, she curated and participated in the national exhibition Inquestigation: Women at the Intersections of Art and Science at the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, NJ. Jordan lectures on visual culture, and her writing has appeared in publications including Intellect Books, Tussle Magazine, Arte Fuse, Bomb Magazine, and Bloomsbury Fashion Central. She is the recipient of a 2024 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Award. Jordan holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors from Pratt Institute and a Master of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude, from Montclair State University. She is a member of the Women's Caucus for Art and Guttenberg Arts.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Employing two- and three-dimensional analog and digital processes, my recent bodies of work examine the development of self in relation to the marine realm—specifically our human ecotone—seeking to reveal emergent complexities that arise when diverse spheres, identities, and species collide. These aquatic tableaux conflate the natural and the artificial to probe the conceptual boundaries of reconstructed, quasi- "grottos of the mind."

Irregularities in some of the accompanying glazed ceramic pieces, including areas of deliberate breakage, evoke estuarine species and their mutable environments, marked by growth and decay. Multivalent textures, coupled with reductive palettes of warm and cool tonalities, intimate the chemical and cellular processes that constitute marine organisms and their dynamic interactions, inviting contemplation of the linkages that connect us as humans. Through the shared taxonomies of self and specimen, my work aims to envision an eco-empathic coexistence across our manifold habitats.