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Patsy Krebs

Patsy Krebs

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  • Works
  • Exhibitions
  • Press
  • American, b. 1940 Lives and works in Inverness, Ca The paintings of Patsy Krebs create an awareness of our perceptions...

    American, b. 1940

    Lives and works in Inverness, Ca

     

    The paintings of Patsy Krebs create an awareness of our perceptions of color, shading, and light. Her subtle, masterful pallets illuminate the closest gradations of light and dark values and their relationship to each other. Two of her central forms are the rectangle and square, both of which echo the shapes of her paintings and float in and out of vision, hovering in a tantalizing zone on the threshold of optical illusion. Even behind the most scientifically grounded optical phenomena and color theory, there lies a core of mystery and mood in these works.
     
    A native of northern California, Patsy Krebs spent her formative years as an artist in New York. She later lived in Los Angeles, where she earned an MFA from Claremont College in 1976 and began an exhibiting career. She has taught extensively at art institutions throughout California, most recently at Dominican University, San Rafael.
     
    In 1996 and 2010, Krebs was awarded a Pollack- Krasner Foundation Artist’s Grant. She was the subject of a 2018 solo exhibition at the Bolinas Museum, CA, and her works are included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL; Denver Art Museum, CO; and the Brooklyn Museum, NY. Patsy Krebs: Painting, a monographic survey of her work, was published in 2017.

     

    Artist CV (PDF)

  • Works
    • Patsy Krebs Untitled (White - Black w/ Green), 2009 Acrylic on wood 12 x 12 inches
      Patsy Krebs
      Untitled (White - Black w/ Green), 2009
      Acrylic on wood
      12 x 12 inches
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    • Patsy Krebs Untitled (Medallion II), 2020 Acrylic on wood 45 x 30 inches
      Patsy Krebs
      Untitled (Medallion II), 2020
      Acrylic on wood
      45 x 30 inches
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    • Patsy Krebs The Water District (Gold), 2013 Acrylic on panel 36 x 22 inches
      Patsy Krebs
      The Water District (Gold), 2013
      Acrylic on panel
      36 x 22 inches
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    • Patsy Krebs Untitled (Grey w/ Red), 2012 Acrylic on panel 36 x 22 inches
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      Untitled (Grey w/ Red), 2012
      Acrylic on panel
      36 x 22 inches
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    • Patsy Krebs Interlocking (rose/teal), 1991 Watercolor on paper mounted on panel 38 x 60 inches
      Patsy Krebs
      Interlocking (rose/teal), 1991
      Watercolor on paper mounted on panel
      38 x 60 inches
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    • Patsy Krebs Untitled (aubergine-gold), 2023 Watercolor and acrylic on paper mounted on panel 18 x 58 inches
      Patsy Krebs
      Untitled (aubergine-gold), 2023
      Watercolor and acrylic on paper mounted on panel
      18 x 58 inches
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    • Patsy Krebs Elysion (Grey/Green/Magenta), 2004 Watercolor and acrylic medium on paper 15 x 90 inches
      Patsy Krebs
      Elysion (Grey/Green/Magenta), 2004
      Watercolor and acrylic medium on paper
      15 x 90 inches
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    • Patsy Krebs Evensong II, 2017 Watercolor on paper on panel 14 x 56 x 1.5 inches
      Patsy Krebs
      Evensong II, 2017
      Watercolor on paper on panel
      14 x 56 x 1.5 inches
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  • Exhibitions
    • Patsy Krebs: Equations

      Patsy Krebs: Equations

      May 17 - July 13, 2024
      Haines Gallery proudly presents Equations , our ninth solo exhibition with Northern California painter Patsy Krebs (b. 1940, lives and works in Inverness, CA). Since the 1970s, Krebs has created...
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    • Patsy Krebs: Aletheia: reveal/conceal

      Patsy Krebs: Aletheia: reveal/conceal

      November 1 - December 22, 2018
      Haines Gallery is pleased to present Aletheia: reveal/conceal , a solo exhibition by Northern California painter Patsy Krebs (b. 1940, lives and works in Inverness, CA). In her ninth solo...
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    • Quintessence: 6 Perspectives on Abstraction

      Quintessence: 6 Perspectives on Abstraction

      June 7 - September 1, 2018
      This summer, Haines Gallery is pleased to present Quintessence: 6 Perspectives on Abstraction , a group exhibition bringing together works by six contemporary artists to consider a range of approaches...
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    • Goethe's Chamber

      Goethe's Chamber

      January 8 - February 28, 2015
      Goethe’s Chamber is a group exhibition that invites visitors to reconsider vision as an embodied, subjective and durational experience, continuously augmented by emergent technologies and theorized from various vantages throughout...
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    • Fundamental Abstraction III

      Fundamental Abstraction III

      January 9 - March 1, 2014
      Haines Gallery is pleased to present Fundamental Abstraction III , a group exhibition featuring an international selection of artists concerned with the formal aspects of line, color, shape and composition...
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    • Poetics of Construction

      Poetics of Construction

      January 18 - February 23, 2013
      Our intervention with the world is invariably shaped by the composed form. Even in the seemingly limitless digital society with which we are obliged to interact, our negotiations with physical...
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    • Patsy Krebs: New Paintings

      Patsy Krebs: New Paintings

      February 23 - April 7, 2012
      Bay Area-based Patsy Krebs exhibits new paintings that continue her long-term consideration of the rectangular form, building upon works shown in the 2008 exhibition at Haines Gallery, Hibernal Dreams ....
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  • Press
  • David M. Roth, “Quintessence @ Haines,” Squarecylinder.com, July28, 2018

    Michael Abatemarco, “A moment in the sun: The influence of Park Place Gallery,” Pasatiempo, February 17, 2017

    Par Sibylle Maria Kraft, "Pasty Krebs ou une mèditation picturale...," Art Croissance Mag Montage, January 2013

    Kenneth Baker, "Poor's 'Remainders' at Haines," San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2012

    Chrissie Bradley, "Patsy Krebs at Haines Gallery," Artweek, August 2008

    Kenneth Baker, "Saito and Krebs at Haines," San Francisco Chronicle, May 3, 2008

    Peter Selz, "Patsy Krebs' Show at GTU Explores the Boundaries," The Berkeley Daily Planet, September 2, 2005

    Kenneth Baker, "Patsy Krebs at Haines," San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2001

    Mark Van Proyen, "Patsy Krebs at Haines," Art in America, September 1999

    John Crowe, "College Exhibit Offers Order in Chaotic World," Redding Record Newspaper, March 11, 1993

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