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

I investigate the development of the self across multiple domains, with a particular focus on the human ecotone, to examine how different spheres, identities, and species intersect. My work illuminates the complexities that arise at these intersections through two- and three-dimensional analog and digital processes. In emergent tableaux that conflate the natural and the artificial, I probe the conceptual boundaries between art and science. The irregularities in some of my biomorphic forms, including areas of intentional breakage, reference estuarine species and their mutable environments marked by growth and decay. Multivalent textures, coupled with reductive palettes of warm and cool tonalities, conjure the chemical and cellular processes that constitute diverse organisms and their dynamic interactions, inviting contemplation of the linkages that connect us as humans. Through the shared taxonomies of self and specimen, I envision an ecoempathic coexistence across divergent habitats.