Patricia Izzo

Patricia Izzo received her Art degree from Northern Michigan University with an assistantship in her Masters of Arts Program. She works in fine art photography using classic film, as well as experimental media, and painting. Izzo has shown widely regionally, nationally and internationally. She was twice awarded the Gold Medal of the State of Michigan Photographic Competition, her empathic photography graces numerous private collections, including Sothebys. Her work is in the permanent photography collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, University of Michigan Museum, Kresge Museum at Michigan State, Mira Godard Center- Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, The Bibliothèque Museum of Paris and the Detroit Focus Portfolio. Izzo's art is often sought after by devotees of classic black and white photography. Izzo work has been featured in movies, a collection of books, and published in American Photo, Black and White Magazine, Wayne State Alumni, Les Femmes Folles, ArtAnimal, Crains Business Detroit and The Florida and Southern Reviews.  Her firstbook “FRAGILE AWAKENINGS” waspublished in 2009. She often collaborates with authors and film makers.

She belongs to The Woman’s Caucus of the Arts, Detroit Scarab Club andFeminist Art Project. She also mentors thé mentally disabled and cancer patients using art as therapy. Izzo is an artist in residence at Rivers Edge Gallery, Wyandotte MI.

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PARTIAL LIST OF EXHIBITS

Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
University of Michigan Museum,
Ann Arbor, MI
Mira Godard Center- Ryerson University, Toronto Canada
Bibliothèque Muséum of Paris, France
Kresge Museum, Michigan State, Lansing MI
Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Sotheby’s, Chicago Illinois
Arc Gallery, Chicago Illinois
MONA Museum of New Art,
Arcadia MI.
Women’s Historic Hall of Fame, Lansing MI
Sarah Doyle Gallery, Providence RI.
Marco Island Art League Gallery, FL
National Steinbeck Center,
Salinas CA.
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Chelsea SoHo Gallery NY. NY.
Detroit Focus 2000 International
S. Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Detroit Artist Market, Detroit MI
Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI
Scarab Club, Detroit. MI
Madonna University, Detroit, MI
Rivers Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
Winkleman Center for the Arts,
Grosse Pte.Gallery, Grosse Pte. MI
Henry Ford Art Collection, Detroit, MI

PRIVATE COLLECTORS
London, England
Belize, South America
Chicago, Illinois
New York, New York
 

ARTIST STATEMENT

My creative force finds its home in fine art photography and painting. The images I create speak to the viewer by offering glimpses into our shared human condition, honoring both the darkness and the light.

Each image begins as something hidden that longs to escape, to be known. I take risks with my art.

The images may require you to step out of line perhaps even break with polite society, to view a deeper meaning of the desires that both plague and please. It is this artist’s hope that my work captures what is needed most and serves the viewer well.

My work is my gift and it is what I was meant to do.

May these images honor your journey –

Patricia Izzo