Kristen Van Patten

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Resume


Education

MFA Painting / San Francisco Art Institute 2005-2007
BFA Painting / San Francisco Art Institute 2003-2005
AA Art / Orange Coast College 1998-2003


Experience

Teaching Assistant in Painting / Head professor: Dewey Crumpler / SFAI 2007
Teaching Assistant in Painting / Head professor: Bruce McGaw / SFAI 2006
Woodshop Tech / SFAI 2006-2007


Exhibitions

Gen Art Bay Area Emerge / Warfield Building / San Francisco, CA / Juried by:
-Daniell Cornell, Director of Contemporary Art Projects and Curator of
-American Art, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
-Jill Dawsey, Independent Curator, and most recently Curatorial Associate
-Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA
Meg Shiffler, Gallery Director, San Francisco Arts Commission

Parallax / Swell Gallery / San Francisco, CA / 2006
AC/VC / Audio Cinema / Portland, Or / 2006
Velvet Da Vinci Gallery / San Francisco, CA / 2006
Modular Objects / Diego Rivera Gallery / San Francisco, CA / 2006
Live Worms Gallery / San Francisco, CA / 2005

Skills
-Drawing
-Painting

Oil
Acrylic
Watercolor
Gouache

-Sculpture
Wood
Metal
Oxy-Acetylene Torch Welding
Arc Welding
Machine Shop / Metal Fabrication
Metal Casting

-Ceramics
Mold Making
Slip Casting
Wheel Throwing
Hand Building

-Electronics / Computer
MAX MSP
Circuit Building

 


“Kristen Van Patten has spanned a large room with an installation of wires, magnets and painted wood nodules. It symbolically links the levity of Alexander Calder's mobiles with contemporary manias: conspiracy theorist paranoia and string theorist euphoria at the connectedness of everything.”
-Kenneth Baker November 11, 2006 (Art Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle)

©Kristen Van Patten 2006
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