This work is part of our exhibition One Thing Becomes Another at Perspectives Gallery at Whitney Center. The exhibition runs from January 19 - May 7, 2024. Works can be picked up after May 7 at the Ely Center, 51 Trumbull St, New Haven, CT. To arrange shipping, for an additional fee, please contact info@elycenter.org.

Patricia Carrigan is a painter and mixed media artist from East Granby, Connecticut. Patricia has exhibited her paintings, drawings, and mixed media pieces since 1990 in several solo, group, national, and international exhibitions. Her work is represented in many private and public collections. 

Ms. Carrigan received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Connecticut at Storrs in 1994 in Painting and Drawing and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York in 1982 in Painting and Art Education. Themes explored throughout her work include, memory and personal storytelling, Irish family histories, and everyday symbols. 

Patricia has been awarded numerous grants including a Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont and two Studio Grants from The Greater Hartford Arts Council. She is a 2002 and a 2004 Recipient of An Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism and a Ballinglen Artist Residency Fellowship in Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland in 2005 and in 2007. After twenty-five years as a professor of visual fine arts at Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut Patricia retired in 2022 enabling her to return to a full time studio practice.