Untitled abstraction

Patricia deGogorza

An early print by the artist, who at the time was just starting a career in fine art. Patricia deGorgoza traveled to France to study at Atelier 17 not long after graduation. Only twenty-two when she created this mixed technique intaglio, its clean lines and carefully plotted textures make it something akin to a more seasoned artist’s work, and belies her inherent knowledge of composition and form, which would easily translate into her later work in sculpture. This piece, as with her three dimensional oeuvre, borrows from the natural shapes of nature.

Layered textures and broken geometrical shapes display the complex beauty in artistic experimentation, the theory the Atelier 17 was based on. DeGorgoza worked at the Atelier in Paris in the mid 1950s through 1960, and went on to teach extensively in both printmaking and sculpture.

Patricia deGogorza, sculptor, painter, and printmaker was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 17, 1936. She received her BA from Smith College in 1958 and her MA from Goddard College in 1975, and between 1956 and 1960 she worked with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris. DeGogorza has taught both printmaking and sculpture extensively at Bard College, Goddard College, University of Vermont Burlington, and Vermont College at Montpellier. She is also actively engaged in her local Philharmonic Orchestra in Vermont, where she currently resides.

Her work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Collection Ville de Paris, Louvre; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; the Provincetown Museum; and Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson. She has had numerous solo shows, completed a number of private commissions in sculpture and has been included in as host of group exhibitions for both sculpture and prints.