RESUME
Born: New York City
Education: BA in Classics/Fine Art History, New York University, NY, NY; The Art Students’ League, NY, NY; Independent Study in Paris and Amsterdam.
Selected Public and Private Collections:
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA.
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT.
Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, TX
Stobart Foundation, Salem, MA.
The New School, NY, NY.
The Noble Maritime Collection, Staten Island, NY.
The Kenneth Ratner Collection, NY, NY.
Webster Hall, NY, NY.
Selected Solo and Two-person Exhibitions:
2020 City and Country: Twenty Paintings by Patricia Melvin, Gilbert Gallery, 60 Main Street, Farmington, CT, curated by Grier Torrence.
2008 Memories of the Lower East Side, East 4th Street Gallery, 67 E. 4th Street, NY, NY.
2001 Beaux Arts Gallery, Woodbury, CT.
1997 The Schoolhouse Gallery, 1 Owens Rd., Croton Falls, NY.
1996 Chuck Levitan Gallery, Grand St., NY, NY.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023
Westbeth Gallery Winter Show ’23, 57 Bethune St, NY, NY 10014
Small Works Invitational: Once in a Blue Moon, Blue Mountain Gallery, 547 West 27th St, NY, NY 10001
Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors Annual Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, 547 West 27th St., NY, NY 10001
2022 Framing the Village, Revelation Gallery, New York, NY. 10014. Curated by Marc Kehoe.
Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors 1940-2021 Commemorative Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, Ste 504, NY, NY. 10001
2022-1 Westbeth Holiday Exhibition, Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune Street, NY, NY.
2022-2014 A Feeling of Humanity: Contemporary Western Art from the Ken Ratner Collection, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT; Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY; St. George Art Museum, St. George, UT; Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, David City, NE; Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, TX (currently on semi-permanent loan.) Curated by Ken Ratner.
2020 Theater for the New City, 25th Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, virtual exhibition (Review and featured painting in Forbes magazine, ed. May 22, 2020.)
2019 Greenwich Village & Its Environs: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Village Preservation, Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY.
2018 Small Works/Baruch/2018, Juried Exhibition, Sidney Mishkin Gallery,135 East 22nd Street, NY, NY. Juried by Richard Timperio and Elizabeth Avedon, curators.
SOUND & IMAGE: Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors, Westbeth Gallery, 57 Bethune Street, NY, NY.
2016 Small Works Invitational, Works on Paper, Blue Mountain Gallery, 530 West 25th St., NY, NY.
Invitational , NOHO/M 55 Gallery, 530 West 25th St., NY, NY.
2015 Celebrating our 75th Anniversary:The Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors, Po Kim Gallery, 417 Lafayette St., NY, NY.
2014 Inspired: Contemporary Artists Respond to John A. Noble, Noble Maritime Collection, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY.
2012 The Image and the Word, The Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors, Westbeth Gallery, 57 Bethune St., NY, NY. Curated by John Silver.
Reawakenings: Emerging from Spring into Winter, The Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Cape Cod, MA.
2011-04 Broome St. Gallery Holiday Invitational Exhibition, Broome Street Gallery, 498 Broome St., NY, NY.
2011-08 Tugs, Night & Day, Noble Maritime Collection.
2011 Federation Modern Painters & Sculptors, Soho, Broome Street Gallery, 498 Broome St., NY, NY.
2010 Picturing the Lower East Side, Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, Educational Alliance, 197 E. Broadway, NY, NY.
2009 Women: Diverse Interludes, Andre Zarre Gallery, 529 West 20th St. NY, NY.
Bowery Gallery Juried Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, 530 W. 25th St., NY, NY.
2008 Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors at Broome Street, Broome Street Gallery, 498 Broome St., NY, NY.
Summer Light, Westbeth Gallery, 57 Bethune Street, NY, NY. Curated by Jack Dowling.
Landing Salt, Pearl Street Gallery, 100 Pearl St., Chelsea, MA.
2007 Selections from Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors, Westbeth Gallery, 57 Bethune St., NY, NY. Curated by Peter Colquhoun.
2007-06 Salt Mountain, Noble Maritime Collection, Staten Island, NY.
2006 Painting the Metropolis: Visions of Lower Manhattan by 19 Contemporary Artists, Educational Alliance,197 East Broadway, NY, NY, Curated by Ken Ratner.
2005, 2003-1997 Annual Small Works Invitational, Blue Mountain Gallery, NY, NY.
2004 Crossing Brooklyn Bridge,Williamsburg Art & Historic Center, Brooklyn, NY (Curator.)
2004, 02 Annual Exhibit, Noble Maritime Collection, Staten Island, NY.
2003 An Artist’s Life, Broome Street Gallery, 498 Broome St, NY, NY.
2000 Gardens, Buildings & Birdhouses, Main Street Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY.
1998 Feast for the Eyes,The Ernest Rubenstein Gallery at The Educational Alliance, 197 E. Broadway, NY, NY.
Curated by Barbara Buff, Museum of the City of New York.
World Artists for Tibet, Blue Mountain Gallery, 121 Wooster St., NY, NY.
1997 Summer Invitational and Winter Invitational, Chuck Levitan Gallery, 42 Grand St., NY, NY.
Hori-Zonal Components, Bronx River Art Center & Gallery, Bronx, NY.
1995 The $800 Show, G.W. Einstein, 591 Broadway, NY, NY.
1988 The Alliance of Figurative Artists, Ten Worlds Gallery, Warren St., NY, NY.
1987 The Street Painters and Guests, Lever House, Park Ave at 53rd St., NY, NY.
Grants:
2019 Stobart Foundation Grant
2003 Noble Maritime Collection Grant for Lithography
2002 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
Professional Affiliations:
Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Advisory Board Member
Selected Publications:
John O’Hern, “Inherent Beauty,” with illustration, Western Art Collector, June, 2014, pp.64-65.
Waterbury Republican, with illustration, April 14, 2012, front page.
Daily News, with illustration, April 23, 2011, p.6.
Oxford University Press Educational DVD. (2010) Including: interview with Patricia Melvin in her studio and painting demonstration.
The Irish Echo (NYC), w illustration, June 11-17, 2008, p. 28.
“Little Boats with Big Responsibilities,” Staten Island Advance, Feb. 24, 2008, pp. 1-2E, w illustration.
New York Times, illustration, July 24, 2005, Sec. 14 (Long Island), p.13.
Sievert, Robert, “Street Verismo,” www.Artezine.com, No. 9, 2003.
Journal of the American Planning Association, cover illustration, Winter, 2001, also p. 9.
O’Shaughnessy,Tracey, “Art Work to Warm a Winter’s Day,” Waterbury Republican, Jan. 26, 2001, p. 12 B.
Petrillo, Jackie, “Gardens, Buildings and Birdhouses,” The Rivertowns Enterprise, March 31, 2000, p. 23.
“On Location,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly, with illustration, Jan. 28, 2000, p. 79.
“This Week in Connecticut,” The New York Times, with illustration, June 18, 1989, CN p.14.