Patricia Scarborough
Landscapes in Oils and Pastels
I find great pleasure in the energy and subtle beauty found in the heartland. Using rich, calligraphic strokes of color I chronicle the landscape found between the interstates and highways, those quiet fields, towns and shady corners that collect private thoughts and insects humming.
Patricia Scarborough received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kearney State College, Kearney Nebraska. She has studied with nationally respected artists Larry Blovits, Doug Dawson, Donna Aldridge, John Roush , Dustin Van Wechel and Kim Casebeer.
She is currently represented by Graham Gallery, Hastings Nebraska
The Burkholder Project, Lincoln, Nebraska
Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska
Her work can be seen in collections across the United States, Great Britain and France. She has been included in many juried shows, including:
Wings Over the Platte Juried Exhibit, Best of Show 2-D, Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island, Ne., 2010;
Wings Over the Platte Juried Exhibit, Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island, Ne. 2009;
Mid-America Pastel Society's Juried Members Only Exhibit, Buttonwood Art Space, Kansas City, Mo., 2008;
International Association of Pastel Society's 8th Juried Exhibition, Raleigh, NC, 2005;
Carnegie Arts Center 12th Anniversary Juried Show, Alliance, Ne, 2005;
Norfolk Arts Center Juried Exhibit, Norfolk, Ne, 2005;
MidAmerica Pastel Society's Juried Exhibit, Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St. Joseph, Mo., 2004 & 2002;
Chadron State College Juried Exhibit, Chadron Ne., 2003;
Sioux City Art Center's 57th Juried Exhibition, Sioux City, Iowa, 2001;
Pastel Society of New Mexico's 9th Annual Pastel Painting National Exhibition, Albuquerque, NM, 2000;
Fred Wells National Juried Exhibit, Weslyan University, Lincoln, Ne., 1998 & 1997;
Prairie Lights Juried Art Showcase, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Ne., 1997;
She has been featured artist at the Nebraska Governor's Mansion courtesy of the Nebraska Arts Council, 2004, 1998.
Her painting, "Photo Op", is in the collection of the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, Nebraska.
Memberships include the Association of Nebraska Art Clubs, for which she served as president in 2001;
Mid America Pastel Association;
Aurora Area Artisans Association;
Geneva Art Association
