Patricia Altschul
Patricia Altschul was born in Hempstead, NY and raised in Palo Alto, CA. She earned both her BA and MFA, with an emphasis in painting, at UCDavis, where she studied with Wayne Thiebaud, Manuel Neri, Cornelia Schulz, Robert Arneson, Ralph Johnson, Jackie Winsor, and others. She subsequently worked in Togo, West Africa for USAID, taught art at the Southside Art Center, in the Sacramento City School District, conducted independent workshops in drawing, and was for 11 years an adjunct faculty member in the art department at American River College where she taught painting, drawing and design.
Patricia Altschul’s work has been shown locally and nationally and is in numerous private and corporate collections. She is currently represented by the b.Sakata Garo Gallery in Sacramento, CA
Patricia Altschul works in a garden studio in Sacramento, CA where she is distracted by stray birds, her dog Fiep, and the changing seasons.
At Tusen Takk
While at Tusen Takk I intend to use the quiet of the solitary residency to explore working in and with water-based media, primarily gouache, teaching myself the techniques required to work in the image language I currently create with oil based paint. It is my hope to create a series of works echoing the luminous surface quality of the Italian frescoes of the early renaissance, for example those of Piero della Francesca, Pisanello, Loernzetti, Mantegna, and of the Castle Roncolo in Bolzano. I expect to work on paper in varying sizes, with the intention of mounting the finished work on wood panels.
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