Pat Broughton

I create abstract art with a focus on gestural abstraction, mark-making, geometry, and color. My work begins with rudimentary shapes or forms. As I explore their properties they often mutate and interact in unexpected ways. Additionally, I find that certain colors seem to resonate with each other. I find it valuable to view multiple finished works together, either actively or unconsciously. Sometimes, just seeing multiple works near each other through my peripheral vision will inspire one or more new works. In this way my discoveries continually compound and combine to yield new ones.

I want to create things people haven't seen before. In doing this I hope to remind the viewer what it feels like to experience a particular color, smell, or other sensation for the first time. I hope to build a visual world which is strange, playful, intriguing and enduring.

I am based in Cleveland, Ohio.

B.S. of Electrical Engineering, The University of Akron, 2007.

2020VISION, 818 Studios, Cleveland, OH (group), 2020

Sonata #5 Project Exhibition, Survival Kit Gallery, Cleveland, OH (group), 2020

Intersections - Archives Inspiring Art, Institute for Human Science and Culture at the University of Akron, Akron, OH (group), scheduled

Infinite Madness, 818 Studios, Cleveland, OH (group), 2019

Grand, Up Front Art Space, Cuyahoga Falls, OH (group), 2019

Bryn Du Art Show, Granville, OH (group), 2019

Times End, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA (group), 2019

47th Annual Juried Art Exhibit, Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, OH (group), 2018