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Artist Publishes Retrospective
May 9th, 2008 - Frederick, MD
Frederick Maryland artist Patrick Hiatt has published a collection of works created over the last 40 years.
Patrick Hiatt was born in 1942 and showed exceptional artistic skills at a very early age; however, being raised in the Midwestern United States in a pragmatic Pentecostal family who viewed painting and drawing as creating graven images, his interest in art was strongly discouraged. Still he persisted and at the age of 14 attended classes at The Joslyn Art Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Later he attended The University of Wisconsin at Madison majoring in Art Education. There he was fortunate to study life drawing under John Schrup. He also briefly studied drawing and figure painting in oil at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois.
He regularly exhibited at the Straub galleries in Madison, Wisconsin and also presented several one man shows. One of his paintings, “Rising City”, was accepted and secured a purchase award in the 1963 Wisconsin Salon; at that time he was the only undergraduate student ever to exhibit in the salon.
In 1964 his art education was interrupted by the military draft. During service in the Army he received an education in electronics, while still painting and exhibiting both in the military environment and commercially in private galleries. Later he struggled to balance his art with engineering, technical illustration and production graphics, first as an engineering technician for NASA on the Apollo Project, then illustrating for Sanyo and General Dynamics. He eventually entered a successful career in digital electronics working on the F-16 fighter aircraft, Y2K readiness for the FAA and computer deployment for the Department of Homeland Security. During these years he still managed to draw, paint and exhibit whenever possible. He also taught and conducted workshops in drawing and painting. Now retired from the corporate nd government world, he is devoting his efforts to a full time career in painting and drawing.
His work is strongly oriented toward drawing the human figure and incorporates broad interest in history and mythology.
PATRICK HIATT Retrospective 2008
40 years of collected works by the artist
Large Format Landscape 13x11 inches (33x28 cm) 40 pages
Published: December 30, 2007
Now for sale online at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/156356