Patton Blackwell was born in 1949 in South Carolina and reared in Minnesota. Beginning in 1975, she spent several years living in Europe and the Middle East. In 1983, Blackwell enrolled in The Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro. During her 14 years in Brazil, Blackwell traveled the country for one-person and group exhibitions of her work. In 1996, Blackwell returned to South Carolina. In 2019, Blackwell was an artist in residence at Borgo Santo Pietro, in Siena, Italy, and continues to exhibit her work both nationally and internationally.
Blackwell’s paintings are deeply influenced by her surroundings and reflect her investigations of intensity of color and fluidity of paint, as well as her explorations of her personal inner landscape. In this way, Blackwell’s work embodies the reciprocal flow between inner and outer worlds and invites viewers to notice their own shifting perceptions of consciousness.
Blackwell’s paintings have been exhibited at the Columbia Museum of Art and have toured as part of the United States Art in Embassies program in Brasilia, Egypt, Geneva, Guadalajara, Guatemala, Honduras, Myanmar, Romania, and Qatar. Her work is featured in collections in the U.S., Brazil, England, France, Italy, Japan, and Mexico.
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