Pat Moseuk

Pat Moseuk is a San Francisco Bay Area artist. She was born in upstate New York in a small town called Endwell, and started painting at the age of five. By the time she was seventeen, she had already mounted her first solo art exhibition. Pat studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and San Francisco’s Academy of Art University, receiving a B.F.A in Illustration with distinction. Working as a freelance designer and illustrator for several years, she always gravitated towards abstract art. She is a National Award-Winning Artist. 

Statement: I consider myself to be a Contemporary Urban Abstract Painter. I'm captivated with texture, line, color, design, and shape -- the aesthetics of the urban environment. What inspires me is, exploring and finding old decayed building facades, rusted pipes, a hull of a ship, a freeway intersection or a decrepit fence, etc. Mark making is a large part of my painting process. I don’t use a brush that much anymore, my go to tools are discarded credit cards, various palette knives and whatever I can find that will make a unique mark. I first start out with a palette knife creating texture in a thick gesso on my substrate, like a sculptor moving the gesso around carving marks and writing into it. Once the gesso is dry, I rub into the surface Payne’s Grey to reveal the markings. Then the painting process begins, adding in lines and multiple thin layers (called glazes) of acrylic paint creating shapes and defining a composition. Line is important to me in creating an emotion and familiarity; it could be defining a shape or a sense of order, tension and chaos. I work intuitively, so I never know how my paintings are going to turn out; I just go with my gut feelings. Like a lot of artists, I’m just revealing to the viewer my soul. As an abstract artist, I make things up and take outrageous creative risks. Intuitive painting teaches us that there is a holy wisdom in allowing ourselves to be led and guided by whatever shows up on the paper or canvas in front of us. To let go of the common conceptions I know and open fully to the unknown. To making what is unconscious conscious and to trust what resides in one self.

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