Ben-Way Lake Painting

Instagram: .pat.crawford.art Website: Sam Pat Crawford is a multidisciplinary artist & architectural designer from Los Angeles. After taking AP Art in highschool she went to Savannah College of Art & Design where she studied both art & architecture, graduating with a BFA in Architecture. She went on to get her M. Arch from UCLA while making art, doing photography and creating music on the side. She currently works as an architectural designer and creates abstract paintings and other artwork. Her 2022 - 2023 series ‘Sentient Forms’ is a work of abstract paintings inspired by the tension of positive and negative space, transparencies and emotional representation through shapes. She explores the human tendency to attribute emotion and personality to inanimate forms through paintings of organic forms. The forms appear to interact and have conversations with one another. However, the viewer's interpretations of the interactions may be more of an inward reflection of the viewer and how they see the relationships around themselves.