I don’t know if I chose fiber or it chose me. By training I am a master lithographer, painter, book maker, and installation artist. I have BFA, MA, and MFA degrees in Painting and Printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art, University of Wyoming, and Pratt Institute.

My lifetime interest is the investigation of why and how Man knows himself through the use of bodily personification. In 1974, I began to make imprints of the human body and turn them into lithographs. These prints are in such collections as the NJ State Museum, Zimmerli Museum , Hunterdon Art Museum, and have been exhibited throughout the US and in Europe

In 1992, having learned to spray paper, I began creating “paper personas”. Adventures in “body wrapping” continued through “remnant boxes” - figures in binder’s board boxes; “cocoon bundles”- floating figures enclosed in fabric bundles; “curtain cages” - women’s bodies hung on the outside of “mock cages”; and “conundrums” - playful interactions between man and child. Recently, in a new show,I explored artist’s Heavenly books, carpets from Hell, and “humans”, dancing, crawling, fighting in robust life. Exhibited at Noho Gallery, NYC since 1996, these works have also been featured in galleries across the country

                                                                                                    PAT FEENEY MURRELL