A Brief History
Pat Pendleton is a multidisciplinary artist (photography, textiles, collage) working in Angola, NY. Primarily an abstract painter (acrylic paint on paper, canvas, and wood), the discoveries and struggles found in a process of layering materials become a kind of interior landscape of color, shape and mark--evidence of the continuous present through ongoing transformation and changing elements.
The Twentieth Century painter, Georgia O'Keeffe signed her letters "from the faraway nearby." This idea reminds me of the way painting is a measure of the physical and psychic geography between self and other (person or painting) that is constantly shifting.
Pat is from Tonawanda, New York. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from SUNY Collage at Oswego and went on to further pursue ceramics and textile work while residing in San Francisco before relocating to Manhattan at the end of the 1970s and began painting and exhibiting in group shows at Minor Injury Gallery, Middle Collegiate Church, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Emerging Collector Gallery, AIR Gallery, and Public Image Gallery.
During the early 1990s she left New York to attend a graduate program in Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and received a Master of Arts in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and Art Therapy. While working as a clinician and group facilitator in health care, she continued with a painting practice and participated in shows at Core New Art Gallery, Hospice of Metro Denver, Naropa University Art Gallery, and Boulder Art Gallery.
Back in Western New York since 2005, she has participated in numerous local exhibitions and local member shows, such as Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Carnegie Art Center, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Artspace Buffalo Gallery, Western New York Book Arts Center, CEPA and Big Orbit.
Most recently in 2026, Buffalo Society of Artists Open Members Exhibition at Princessa Gallery; Between Doorways: Downtown Buffalo at Beebe’s (Hunt Gallery); Live On Five Annual Fundraiser Auction at Buffalo Arts Studio; and Annual Members Exhibition at Western New York Artists Group Gallery.
During 2025 she was represented in Orchard Park, NY by The Comma Fine Art Gallery. During 2024, she exhibited twenty paintings at Carnegie Art Center along with two other painters (Three Degrees of Abstraction: Painting--Mary Begley, Pat Pendleton, Eileen Pleasure). During 2023, she participated in the annual Hallwalls Mid-winter Draw.
While residing at Artspace Buffalo during 2017, she presented The Future of Something: Recent Painting by Pat Pendleton and J. Tim Raymond at Artspace Buffalo Gallery. An earlier opportunity at Artspace Buffalo Gallery allowed her to exhibit near one hundred works in 2012: Curious Evidence: Mixed Media Works by Pat Pendleton, 1982-2012.
Other selected exhibitions include:
2024
Live On Five
Buffalo Arts Studio
Collecting Conversations: Open Members Exhibition 2024
Niagara Arts & Cultural Center
Known, Imagined, Experienced
The Comma Fine Art Center
2023
Wonders, Wild and new (Dec)
Inside, Outside, In Between (Sept)
The Comma Fine Art Center
2020
Marks of Repair
Virtual Exhibition on "The Exhibit" platform
20/20 Vision: Women Artists of Western New York
Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University
2018
Harvest: Recent Painting by George Grace, Pat Pendleton, J. Tim Raymond
Artspace Buffalo Gallery
2016
Nephilim: Malcolm Bonney and Friends
Artspace Buffalo Gallery
Winter Drawing Rally (Feb)
Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Art
2014
Year of the Horse: Fendya, Pendleton, Raymond
C.G. Jung Center Gallery