ARTIST TO WATCH
Pat Musick
When an artist has been working for nearly five decades, something magic happens. An alchemy takes place. Ideas manifest with form and a gestalt becomes clear. Ninety-year-old environmental artist Pat Musick makes large and small-scale sculpture and two-dimensional art using natural media such as wood, stone, paper, beeswax. Her subjects are “the fragile nature of our environment and the human/nature relationship responsible for its survival.”
“Artists to Watch 2018” is a survey of contemporary Vermont artists that appears as special features in Vermont Art Guide #6 and #7 and in a two-part exhibition at the Vermont Arts Council.
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Stone and wood speak for the physical world while rusted steel addresses human abuse of the environment. Tree sections make nests for wild turkey eggs…a place of shelter and harmony. Through my work these conditions come together in a conversation of peace and spiritual quiet.
Pat Musick has been a professional artist for forty-five years. She attended the University of Southern California on an art scholarship and received an MA and PhD from Cornell University. Her work is in over fifty museums and public spaces in the United States. Musick has written four books on art, one of which was co-authored by her husband, Jerry Carr. Her archives are housed in the Cornell University Kroch Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts. She is represented by Helmholz Fine Art in Manchester Center. Visit her website, www.camusart.com, for more information.
“Artists to Watch 2018” is a survey of contemporary Vermont artists that appears as special features in Vermont Art Guide #6 and #7 and in a two-part exhibition at the Vermont Arts Council.
ABOUT ARTISTS TO WATCH | GET THE MAGAZINE | EXHIBITION DETAILS
Each issue of Vermont Art Guide has over a hundred places to see art around the state. The full-color, printed magazine has artist and venue profiles as well as articles and news about Vermont Art. Our goal is to document and share the state’s incredible art scene. SUBSCRIBE TODAY
Images by Pat Musick (top to bottom):
Great Circle Stanzas (108”x240”; installation view)
The Words Were All the Same (60″x84″x48″; steel, wood, stone; 2014)
Images courtesy of the artist.