Patrick (p.s.) Gordon

Patrick Gordon was born in 1953, in Claremore, Oklahoma. Growing up in an artistic household, Patrick took his first painting lessons from his mother, Janelle Gordon, a locally-recognized still life painter. He began his formal studies under the tutelage of the widely-regarded watercolorist Glenn Godsey, at the University of Tulsa. Patrick received his BFA from the University of Tulsa in 1974, where he also completed extensive graduate work in watercolor.

Patrick rose to prominence on the strength of his large, deeply saturated, somewhat eccentric watercolor still lifes and portraiture, gaining a reputation as an important painter of the “New American Realism” school. Coinciding with a move to New York City in 2003, Patrick began working almost exclusively in oil-on-canvas, an early love, and a shift that represented and embodied a creative infusion of urban life and new beginnings.