Mixed Media Assemblage, Collage and Other Art

Patti paints in oil and cold wax and creates collage paintings and assemblage art, using ephemera, vintage photos and handmade papers. She has a particular interest in storytelling with a focus on social justice issues and celebrating inspirational artists and activists. Patti was invited to have a solo show recognizing her as an emerging artist in the the Park View Gallery at Glen Echo for three weeks in 2017 and was part of the Holiday Show for instructors at the Popcorn Gallery at Glen Echo. In 2019, Patti had a two month show at The National Institutes of Health and was selected by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) as a program recipient at the Katzen Center for the Arts. She also had solo shows last year (and in prior years) at the Palisades Post Office and the gallery space at Simon Says Yoga. Her work was featured at River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation in a solo show September and October, 2019, and her work was chosen for permanent installation in two public call boxes in the Palisades, DC.

Below are some of my recent pieces:

: Rising. Oil and cold wax on panel. Sold.

: Butterfly Mania: Yayoi Kusama and Joseph Cornell. Sold.

: New Show: Mix It Up. 9/5-10/21 at RRUUC). Shadow boxes, collage paintings, and paintings in oil, cold wax, and acrylic. 25 pieces sold on opening night–yay!

: Card from the new show: Mix It Up

: Earth’s Eye. Oil and cold wax. Sold.

: Penny Lane. Mixed Media Shadow Box. Private collection.

: Skaters on the C&O Canal. For Palisades holiday card.

: Palisades Story. Study for Historic call box.

: In the Mix: Mixed Media Art of Patti Francis. Closing reception on February 4, 2017 from 5-7.

: Women of the World II. Mixed media shadow box.

: Votes For Women. Mixed media shadowbox with overpainted photo (8″ x 8″). Sold.

: Moonlit Snowfall on the Academical Village. Mixed media collage painting. Sold.

: Magic in the Valley: William Sidney Mount . Sold.

: One wall from the show: Mix It Up.

: Sweet Chariot . Shadowbox Tribute to Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (in the background: lyrics from “Swing Low” and “Wade in the Water”–songs that were sung and a chariot arch; dots represent the constellations that they followed; the red dots–the life that was shed.) Sold.

: BioMod. Acrylic, oil, cold wax on panel.

: Sky Memory. Oil and cold wax on panel. Sold.

: Ruby in Red. Monoprint with hand colored photo. Ruby Bridges. Sold. (Most exciting: when I posted this on Instagram, Ruby Bridges “liked” it!

: Underseas 3. Acrylic and medium on round canvas.

: Pennies from Heaven on Penny Lane. Mixed Media Shadow box. Sold.

: Rachel’s Sea. Oil and wax on panel. Sold.

: Tapestry. Oil and wax on wood panel. Sold.

: Cypress Sunset. Private collection.

: Lucky Dog. Mixed media shadow box with over-painted photograph, pennies, paint, vintage Anagram tiles. Sold.

: Curtain of Green: Eudora Welty

: Violet Mist. Oil and wax on wood panel. Sold.

: Delta Sky. Oil and cold wax on panel.

: Play. Shadow box.

: Lincoln in the Bardo. Sold.

: Canal Sunrise. Sold.

: Gathering under the Luminescent Skies. Oil and wax on panel. Sold.

: Woodland Hope. Sold.

: Sunset Reflection. Acrylic, wax and oil on wood panel. Sold.

: Folk Heart Groove. Mixed media on panel. Sold.

: Good Vibrations: Dalai Lama

: Be the Change You Wish to See in the World. Ghandi. Sold.

: Koi Dreams. Oil and wax on panel.

: In the Mix at Glen Echo’s Park View Gallery 1/14/17-2/4/17

: Glow. Oil and wax on panel. Sold.

: Redon Redone. Private collection

: Eudora’s Flowers. Mixed media still life. Acrylic, pastel, oil on canvas. Sold.

: Refraction. Oil and cold wax on panel.

: Tranquility. Oil on wood panel. Sold.

: Color Studies: Homage to Albers and Civil Rights

: Veiled Light II. Oil and wax on wood panel. Private collection.

: Verdure. Oil and wax on wood panel. Sold.

: Veiled Light. Oil and mixed media on panel. Sold

: Fen Oil and wax on wood panel. Sold.

: Auroral. Oil and wax on wood panel. Sold.

: Alluvion. Oil and wax on wood panel. Sold.

: Raining Pennies from Heaven at Seashore. Mixed media shadow box with photographs, pennies, sand. Sold

: Women of the World. Sold.

: Gandhi and the Salt March. Shadow box. Private collection.

: Step Up. Shadow box with alcohol ink on yupo and hand painted photo collage. Sold

: Clara Louis and Editha Ponder Their Prospects. Shadow box.

: Cut Out Elvis. Shadow box. Private collection.

: Bygone Angel. Mixed media collage painting with handmade paper. Private collection

: Sake Blossoms. Oil and wax on panel. Private collection.

: Dotti Botti. Collage painting. Sold.

: Color Study with Wax and Klee. Acrylic painting with collage (vintage papers) and wax. Private collection.

: Green Echo. Layers of translucent glaze and cold wax 10 x 10″ Sold.

: Better Than A Benz. Sold

: Girl with Dog. Monoprint collage patining.

: Fists of Power. Monoprint with overpainted collage. Sold.

: Remember Emmett Till. Sold. Shadowbox with collage remembrance on reverse side. Sold.

: Pipe Up: Resist. Mixed media shadowbox with overpainted photograph, vintage newspaper and altered/burned paper. 8″ x 10″

: Starry Night Whimsy. Painting. Acrylic on wood panel with cold wax. Sold.

: Windmill painting. Sold.

: Soften. Sold.

: Koi Reflection. Acrylic and wax on panel.

: Part of Solo Show at Simon Says Yoga. Artist of the Month for the month of October 2017. Closing reception November 3, 2017.

: Walden Pond. Mixed media collage painting. Acrylic on wood panel with cold wax. Private collection.

: Float. Alcohol ink on yupo on panel. Sold.

: Effervescence. Alcohol ink on yupo on panel. Sold.

: Kingfisher. Alcohol ink on yupo on panel. Sold.

: Wonder. Alcohol ink on yupo on panel. Sold.

: Underseas. Acrylic and medium on panel. Sold.

: Monoprint Blues

: Above Us Only Sky. John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Collage painting with vintage and handmade papers.

: We Go High. Barack and Michelle Obama. Collage painting on panel. Sold.

: Flying Southwest. Georgia O’Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz. Mixed media collage painting with vintage, handmade and other papers, acrylic and graphite on wood panel. Private collection.

: Butterfly Bagism War Is Over. John Lennon & Yoko Ono. Private Collection.

: Butterfly Without Borders. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Collage painting. Private collection.

: Butterfly Bagism. Collage and painting based on John and Yoko’s wedding picture. Private collection.

: Ride Ray Ride. (Charles and Ray Eames doing their thing w/some of their patterns and photos as the background, a butterfly roof in designs and photographs and their “dots” design as antennae). Private Collection.

: Fluttering Northeast. Georgia O’Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz. Private collection.

: William Faulkner. Mixed media collage painting. “Isnt anythin I got a Mint Julep wont cure.” Private collection.

: Underseas 2. Acrylic and medium on panel. Sold.

: A Bird for Every Boy. Reverse mixed media painting. Private collection.

: Sears Vallonia. Kit house shadow box

: Reminisence. Oil and wax on wood panel. Sold.

: No One There To Tell Us What To Do. Acrylic, charcoal, pastel, and wax on canvas. Sold.

: When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum. Henry David Thoreau. Sold.

: Imogen’s Yosemite Surprise. Monoprint with overpainted photo. Private collection.

: Mississippi on My Mind. Mixed media shadow box with collage images of and about Mississippi based on Imagine memorial to John Lennon in Strawberry Fields Central Park. Sold.

: The world is but a canvas to our imagination. Henry David Thoreau. Sold.

: Nine Shining Lights. Charleston Mother Emanuel AME

: Silver Rain. Shadowbox (March from Selma to Montgomery Embroidery on Photograph). Sold.

: Walden. Collage painting on paper. Private collection.

: Glimpsing. Oil and wax on panel. Sold.

: Eudora’s Baby Blue Bird. Monoprint and hand painted collage photo.

: Damage Done…I saw the needle and the damage done. Neil Young lyrics in the background; copperplate photo on wood block; old hypodermic needle.

: Eudora’s Baby Bluebird. Encaustic collage. 8×8″ Sold.

: The Aberdeen Three (FS McKnight of Aberdeen, MS–one of his great photos from the turn of the century). Sold.

: Underground. Tribute to Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Sold.

: Shine the Light of Truth. Ida B Wells, Laura and L.D. Nelson, NAACP. Sold.

: Brown. Tribute to Brown v. Board and its legal team, James Nabrit, Jr., Thurgood Marshall and George E.C. Hayes.

: Rosa. Tribute to Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott.

: Dream. Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and March from Selma to Montgomery.

: Black Lives Matter. Tribute to Black Lives Matter and the ongoing struggle. Private Collection.

: Rosa, the Spark. Shadowbox tribute to Rosa Parks. Map and fingerprints in background, mug shot, vintage replica box, anagram tiles. Sold.

: Exhibit of Patti’s work at Palisades Post Office on MacArthur Blvd. DC. (September 11 to November 16, 2015)

: Universal Language. Sold.

: Bat Boys of the Palisades. Sold.

: Janis Power. Monoprint with overpainted photo. Private collection.

: Frida

: The Mer Girls of Mentone. Sold.

: The Mer Girls of Mentone. Sold.

: Raining Pennies from Heaven. Shadowbox. Vintage photo with embroidery and painting. Pennies and sheet music. Sold.

: Blue Suede Shoes. Vintage 45 of Blue Suede Shoes; oil pastel on suede; vintage photo; paint . Sold.

: “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi” William Faulkner Southern Gothic “The Sound and the Fury” Kudzu. Sold.

: Imagine. Monoprint with overpainted photo. Private collection.

: Commission for a Family (Lovers of Music and NOLa with personal details for each family member). Sold.

: Watercolor and alcohol ink on yupo.

: Alabama on My Mind. Mixed media shadow box for Auburn UU auction. Sold.

: Double sided memorial box. Commission

: King of the Road. Celebrating winning his age bracket in the Fifth Avenue Mile Race and passing Malcom Gladwell. Our Favorite Outlier. Sold.

: Everest. Sold.

: Sears Vallonia Catalog Home Kit House . Old add for Sears bungalow, The Vallonia with miniature catalog, anagram tiles and other vintage papers. Sold.

: Lady and Her Pug. Sold.

: Flower Power. Custom collage with petals featuring children and grandchildren surrounding the mother/grandmother as the center. Sold.

: Remember. Civil War era photo transfer (on vintage linen) with girl holding a photo of her soldier dad (Union? Confederate?) Vintage compasses (one pointed north and one pointed south). Sold.

: Why I Live at the P.O. I made this piece to hang at the Palisades P.O. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnzdozWfxw Sold.

: Custom hand painted illustration to commemorate pregnancy with meaningful words for family in dress

: Dancer Pose Bok Bok

: Eudora Spins a Kudzu Ferris Wheel. Encaustic collage. Sold.

: Monoprint on board with overpainted photograph. Private collection.

: Monoprint on board with overpainted photo. Private collection.

: Coal. Monoprint on board with collage. Private collection.

: Ruby. Monoprint on board with overpainted photo.

: Violet. Monoprint on board with overpainted photo.

: Lulu. Monoprint on board with overpainted photo.

: Henry Armstrong. Monoprint on board with overpainted photo. Private collection.

: Alcohol ink on yupo with handpainted collage. Private collection.

: Amory XC. Monoprint on board with overpainted photo.

: Custom family portrait collage box based on vintage photo with moon. Sold.

: Inside of box. Collage with vintage and washi papers.

: Custom family portrait (with pups in stained glass) and papers featuring faith, family, dogs, quilting and other interests. Sold.

: Custom pieces featuring musical theatre roles (showing both sides)

: Custom wedding box for couple with Hawaiian wedding theme. Sold.

: Custom family portrait collage. Sold.

: Custom DOUBLE SIDED wedding shadow box wedding collage. Sold.

: Custom wedding collage for couple involved in music ministry with lots of special papers relating to their lives. Sold.

: Family commission

: Custom wedding collage box for couple who got married in December and decorated with Christmas trees and went to Hawaii on honeymoon (hence Christmas and palm trees). Sold.