Patricia Moss-Vreeland: All the Remembering, 2017, archival pigment print, 29" x 20" x 1.5"

About:

I like capturing the feeling of something, not just the way it appears, as our emotions and experiences provide the shape and dimension to how we perceive and remember. Through a system of storage and retrieval, like the making of memory itself, land and water contain memories, a larger composite of time and place. I wanted to evoke movement for the passage of time and for the fleeting aspect to remembering, along with areas that give shape to imagining.

Bio:

Patricia Moss-Vreeland is an artist, author, poet, TEDx speaker, and thought-leader on the relationship between art, memory, learning, and creativity. Her work spans four decades and has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Informed by research in neuroscience, working with neuropsychologists, she integrates this knowledge about the functioning of the human brain and the construction of memory into her works, which was hailed in 1999 by the Baltimore Sun "an invitation to think differently about memory and the creative process". She works in a range of media, paintings, drawings, prints, mixed media collages, videos, and artist books, incorporating her poetry at times to suggest the ways that language and memory are intertwined.

Moss-Vreeland's works have been exhibited nationally at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. She is in many permanent collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and The Norton Museum. Moss-Vreeland won a national competition to design the Memorial Room for the Holocaust Museum Houston, earning four awards, including the American Institute of Architects Honor award in Design.

Recently Moss-Vreeland's work was included in The New York Hall of Science, Science Inspires Art: The Brain, 2015. Recent solo exhibitions include; A Parallel Universe, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 2016, Revelations and Transformation, Layers of Memory, Penn Memory Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2017, In Search of Meaning: Memory Becomes Us, Esther Klein Gallery, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2019.

www.patriciamossvreeland.com