Patti Lechman

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b. 1946, Fort Bragg, North Carolina

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, OH
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
North Carolina State University Museum, Raleigh, NC
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2004 Art of Tennessee, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
20/20 Vision, North Carolina State Museum, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
2003 Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Baskets Now, National Basketry Organization, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
Artists and the Cultivated Landscape, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2002 Baskets Now: USA, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Side by Side, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001-03 Contemporary Baskets, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 New Forms in Fiber, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2000 Who Knows Where or When: Artists Interpret Time and Place, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Miniatures: 2000, Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
Living with Form: The Horn Collection of Contemporary Crafts, Arkansas
Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My recent work is the result of two major influences. First of all, works of the Impressionist and Post Impressionist painters, Monet, Van Gogh and Seurat have inspired me for quite some time. Their color handling in paint translates so beautifully into knotted fiber.

The second influence, love of Asian culture and aesthetics, which has also been rather long term, was revived after a second trip to Japan last spring. I spent time visiting Shinto shrines, Buddhist monasteries, and gardens of the imperial villas in Kyoto. My time there touched me in a new and perhaps more mature way than my first trip did many years ago. I’m unable or unwilling to shake off the sense of quiet and stillness I brought back with me. I hope my new work expresses that sense.