It's My House!

Patti Oleon is a painter who lives and works in San Francisco. Her work focuses on light and the tenuous nature of appearances.  She works from her photographs of public interior spaces, devoid of human presence, manipulating and layering them digitally to use as a blueprint to create haunting and amorphous paintings. The final paintings are an amalgam of contradictions, blurring the line between the real and the artificial, the dark and the light, and the banal and the transcendent. She uses traditional Old Master oil painting techniques to create works that reference the past, yet are firmly rooted in the present. 

Oleon received both her B.A. and M.F.A from UCLA, from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. Her work has been included in many solo and group shows throughout the US. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Guggenheim Foundation Grant, Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, Fulbright/DAAD Fellowship, Ford Foundation Grant, and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant.

“The lobbies are photographed from the outside glass doors and utilize reflections from out on the street to superimpose over the interiors, leaving one with a sense of dislocation and a sense of ambiguity about what is real and what is not. The images are an amalgam of incidents, a real place dislocated in time and space, realistically rendered but on the verge of abstraction.”

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