"Power Form II" Artwork

Patricia Buck is an American abstract painter based in Maryland whose work spans large- scale color-field painting and mixed-media practices. Her work investigates phenomenal energy, perception, and lived experience, often addressing female subjectivity and broader social concerns through color, pattern, and material experimentation. Buck earned her Master of Fine Arts from Howard University’s College of Art in Washington, D.C. (1996), and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio from University of Maryland, College Park (1972). Her work has been exhibited widely. Recent exhibitions in 2025 and 2026 include the East City Regional Exhibition (Washington, D.C.), Howard County Arts Council Biennial, group exhibitions at Columbia Art Center, Towson Arts Collective, and in The Survey of Women Artists of the District, Maryland, and Virginia. Early in her career, Buck’s torn-paper painting Demons without Faces was purchased by Joseph Hirshhorn (1981) and is documented in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. In 1998 and 1999, the State of Colorado acquired two of her works for their Art in Public Places collection. Her work is also held in numerous private collections across the United States, including Illinois, New York, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Washington State, and California. Buck has received multiple grants in recognition of her work, including a 2025 grant from the Maryland State Arts Council; five grants from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities (including two Individual Artist Grants and three Technical Assistance Grants); a grant from the Arlington Arts Council; and support from Robert Rauschenberg’s Change, Inc. Her next solo exhibition is scheduled for 2027 at Artists & Makers Studios in North Bethesda, Maryland.