About Pat Boyer
Pat Boyer’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions and group exhibitions throughout the United States and in Europe and is included in private collections around the world. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Boyer earned her BFA and certificate from the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, and her MFA from PAFA. She paints and teaches privately in Norristown, Pennsylvania, where she keeps a studio among a close painting community.
Her exhibitions abroad include Gallery Scalarte in Verona, Italy; Gallery Campo S. Piero in Padova, Italy; and La Loggia Gallery in Assisi, Italy.
In the United States, they include Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York City; Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia; and Charles Allis Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee.
Boyer received the Guiletta Award, Verona; as well as the Prix d’Assisi Award, Assisi. She was also awarded a visiting artist residency at the American Academy of Rome during a cumulative 12-year period, spending summers painting in Italy. She has also earned a Special Award at the River Juried Fine Arts Competition in Savannah, Georgia, and a Founders Award at the Woodmere Art Museum.
As an artist I express myself in images, colors and textures, rather than words. And the vision that enables me to translate complex thoughts and feelings onto a single canvas comes from a mind that jumps and jumbles and doesn’t naturally express itself in the linear process of writing.
—Pat Boyer
Essays & Press
Essay by William Zimmer
De Kooning's remark, he's quoting Kierkegaard, that "purity of heart is to will one thing", has often seemed more cryptic than enlightening. But it's [...]
Essay by John Mendelsohn
Pat Boyer's "Arena Series" is a meditation on a classical theme, the Arena at Verona, Italy. Dating from the first century, AD, this edifice [...]
Pat Boyer: “Voice of Verona”
Pat Boyer says that elliptical forms arise naturally from the subconscious mind when people allow their hand to trace marks on paper while they [...]
Statements from Pat Boyer
The Gypsy
I moved a lot as a child –was aware at an early age that I was looking at people and places in a larger [...]
Arena as Place
I'm interested in places, places in the world and in time, places in the head, places with physical dynamics. The Arena is a symbol [...]
Head to Heart
Missing a crooked step in a dark hall on a tour of ruins in Tulum, Mexico, I suffered a concussion. This blow to my [...]