Patricia Schappler

I'm one of eleven children and my mom was one of nineteen, so I grew up loving the noise of family and have four children as well with my husband Mark. I draw as a way of looking at and talking about the complexity of relationships. Originating from ideas of 'family', I search for meaningful ways of expressing oppositional but essential partnerships...joy and loss, fragility and strength, present and past. To that end, I aim to connect with and uncover time in this process. I respond to the tactility of materials in hand, the physicality of large spaces, and the combined spiritual and sensual nature of working from life. Whether sourced from biblical, familial, or fairytale, the narrative remains the same; connected histories in an ongoing love story.

MFA, Drawing and Painting, Brooklyn College, BFA, Drawing, University of New Hampshire, Past exhibitions include among others: the National Juried Home Exhibition at the Attleboro Museum in MA,Finding Home, Solo, Patricia Schappler, Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, The Figure Now, Fontbonne University Fine Arts Gallery, NKG National Juried,Boston, MA,The Northwest Art Center’s Americas 2012: Paperworks Exhibition, Art Kudos International online exhibition, Not Big, MS Renzy Gallery,Lexington, KY, COSPA, Faces of Winter, Stamford, CT, A Point of View in Dublin Ireland, Works on Paper in Texas,the NHAA Currier Exhibition in NH, and the Cooperstown National in NY.