Bio

Born in Lexington, VA, I rarely ventured outside small Southern towns until I spent my college junior year abroad. No doubt that's the reason that to this day, I am still a bit awestruck by new places--which are the inspiration for and subject of my work. Another significant autobiographical detail is that I have always pieced together layered things--clothes, quilts, silkscreen prints, books, pictures--when I wasn't at day jobs, as an academic librarian, bibliographer, writer, editor, project manager. When my children went to college, I returned to school as well, eventually 'emerging' as an artist who still makes layered things, this time in the form of photograph collages. After 40 years living in the Bay Area, I moved with my husband to Boise, ID (following toddler grandchildren). Inspired by the beauty of our high desert location, I am currently working on two Idaho landscape series. My collages and other work are in private and corporate collections.

.Exhibitions

June 12-July 16, 2013, Patricia McClung: Places Deconstructed/Reconstructed, Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA.
June 2012-August 2013, Patricia McClung Collages, Landau Center on Longevity, 579 Serra Mall, Stanford University.
April 2011-June 2012, Patricia McClung, Collages, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, 429 Arguella Way, Stanford University.
Cover images (front and back), Stanford Continuing Studies Fall Course Catalog, 2011.
March-September 2011, Patricia McClung: Urban Collages, Stanford Art Spaces (Institute for Research in Social Science, 30 Alta Road, Stanford University).
July/August 2010, Patricia McClung: Somewhere Between Truth and Memory, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID.
January/February 2010, Homage to the Artists, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID.
October 2009, Magic in the Mix, PhotoCentral Gallery, Hayward, CA.
September 2009, Parklands, Filoli Center, Woodside, CA.
June 2008 and May 2009, Affordable Art Fair, NYC.
January 2009, Los Angeles Art Show, LA Convention Center, CA.
January 2009, PhotoLA, Santa Monica, CA.
March 2008, 18@modern, Modernbook Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.
Fall 2007, Visual Echoes [solo show], Lobby of 199 Fremont St., San Francisco, CA.
Fall 2007, Pathways, Stanford Center for Nursing Excellence, Palo Alto, CA.
Summer 2007, 18 Photograph Collages, Stanford University Art Spaces, Palo Alto, CA.
May-June 2007, Visual Journeys, PhotoCentral Gallery, Hayward, CA.
June 2006, Palo Alto Weekly Award Show, Palo Alto Art Center, CA.

Previous Gallery Representation

Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA.

Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID.

Modernbook Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.

Julie Nester Art Gallery, Park City, Utah

Awards

November 2008, Society for Photographic Education (West Region), 2nd Place (Bellagio Fountain).
May 2007, Mike Ivanitsky Award for Photographic Excellence, Foothill College.
April 2007, League for Innovation Outstanding Artist.
June 2006, Excellence in Photography Award, Foothill College.
June 2006, First Place, Palo Alto Weekly Annual Photography Contest.

Review

'A New Perspective' by Rebecca Wallace. Cover story, Palo Alto Weekly:
August 10, 2007 issue.

Publications

Co-editor 2 volume work: Images Online and Delivering Digital Images,
The Getty Information Institute, Los Angeles, 1998.

Education:

AA Photography, Foothill College; MA, University of Virginia;
SM, Simmons College; AB, Randolph-Macon Woman's College.