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Patricia Russac is an award-winning artist from Oyster Bay. Her work, Through My Eyes, won the Award of Excellence at the 51st Annual Long Island Artist exhibition and The Three Graces won the same award in the national open competition at the Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery in New York. The artist works in various types of media including pastel, charcoal, colored pencil and ink. She uses the power of line and negative space to create the push and pull sensation in her drawings and prints. In most of her work, the figure is the underlying theme; however, the seemingly abstract compositions create layers of mixed media and color to transform the image into intricate organic forms. In much of her work, the artist uses life drawing with a contemporary twist to take the media of drawing to another level. The sense of growth and movement allows the viewer to move in and out of the spaces created by the network of line, color and shape.
Art (that matters)
an artist's collective offering support through community, gallery exhibition and education while promoting the growth of arts and culture on Long Island.
