BIO
Patti Jordan is an interdisciplinary artist conflating two and three-dimensional analog and digital processes. She has exhibited her work throughout the US and internationally and is represented by Pictor Gallery in New York City. In 2023, Jordan curated and presented in the national exhibition, INQUESTtigation: Women at the Intersections of Art and Science at the Monmouth Museum. She is the recipient of a 2024 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, Manifest Gallery's Season 20 Grand Jury Award, and a Ford Foundation Award. Her drawings are in the collections of the Walter Piehl Gallery, Flat Tail Press Gallery, and ArtHouse6 Gallery. Jordan lectures on visual culture, and her writings have appeared in TUSSLE Magazine, ARTE FUSE, BOMB Magazine, and Intellect Books, among other publications. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors from Pratt Institute and a Master of Fine Arts Summa Cum Laude from Montclair State University.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art practice is intrinsically experimental, and its resulting imagery is subject to fluctuations due to chance and unpredictability. I cathartically pour and pull ink across my surfaces. The reticulation and striations from this back-and-forth motion, “drawing,” replicate nascent experiences and materialize as protean forms. As this action occurs over a given duration, I employ change and transformation as a construct to later classify and categorize the works. My recent bodies of work aim to address broader environmental concerns by intersecting the natural world with our human ecotone, envisioning an eco-empathic coexistence within our diverse habitats.