Camille Patha

Teeming with exuberance, passion and vitality, Patha enthusiastically launches forward in her recent exploration of the complexities of life in the twenty - first century via the juxtaposition of her personal bête noire and the focus of light through an inner persona. In Rock Hushka’s (curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art at the Tacoma Art Museum) essay for the 2011 exhibition catalog, he writes, “Patha has realized a new space—both pictorial and intellectual—in which discovery will be continuous and everything moves always directly, steadily forward.” The upcoming exhibition of new oil paintings precisely illustrates this claim through Patha’s layering of seductively suspended, luminous and veil - like color that teeters between transparency and solid form. These new works are fresh and alive and demonstrate Patha’s ease and virtuosity while conjuring illusions of infinite space and time.

Camille Patha has been an important part of the Northwest art scene since 1970, when she was invited to participate with the famous Washington State delegation to the Oska World’s Fair. Her work is in numerous public collections including the Tacoma Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, Jundt Art Museum, and the collections of numerous cities in the state of Washington.

Exhibition publication (2011): CAMILLE PATHA
Hardback 40 pages. 17 color illustrations.
Essay by Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum. Published by Davidson Galleries, 2011. 8 x 10 inches.
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Additional Available Works

Publications: Camille Patha: Geography of Desire
Hardback 144 pages. 130 color illustrations.
Published by Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, 2006. 13 x 11 inches.

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