Pat Genova is a painter currently living in Norwalk, CT. She graduated with an MFA from Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York in 1982 and has studied extensively with the artist Theo Stavropoulos in undergraduate and graduate studies. She has taught at Elizabeth Seton College, Iona College, and Lehman College and is currently Assistant Professor at BMCC where she teaches painting, drawing and sculpture.
She has earned awards including the Artist Fellowship Grant for Painting by the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, a PSC -CUNY Award for the creation of new paintings in the “Chair Series”, and CLHO (Connecticut League of Historical Organizations) award for her contributions to the visual design for “The Norwalk Flood of 1955” at the Norwalk Museum. She was one of 4 artists selected for the inaugural opening of the new state Culture and Tourism Gallery in Hartford, CT.
“A good drawing begs inquiry, rewards with discovery.
These images were chosen because they are conducive to a more introspective and solitary viewing experience. The subject, flowers, have been humanity’s constant companion, accompanying us in times of love, grief, joy and whose very fragrance can instantly evoke memories from the past. Here they are the vehicle of excursions into new artistic journeys. The drawings themselves eschew overt elaboration and ornamentation and strive to capture the essence of objectness, light and shadow and to create a drama that borders on the precipice of visual disintegration.”