Patricia Beary is an inventive fine art photographer and an accomplished art educator from Long Island, New York. Holding a BFA from LIU Post, Patricia’s photography is strongly influenced by her fine art background. She aligns herself with the Pictorialist Photographers who took the medium of photography and reinvented it as an art form, placing beauty, tonality, and composition above creating an accurate visual record. Her photographs are painterly and abstract, using camera, post processing, and contemporary alternative process to deconstruct and interpret rather than create images that solely represent.
As a member of Soho Photo Gallery in NYC, Patricia exhibits her photography in both solo and group exhibitions and holds a position on the executive board. She exhibits regularly at the Alex Ferrone Gallery in Cutchogue, Long Island. Patricia's work has and has been featured in group exhibitions in the US, Italy ,Spain and Japan. She is the recipient of a Julia Margaret Cameron Award (2014) and a Pollux Award (Honorable Mention, 2021).
Retired from a 30 year career as an art educator, Patricia fuels her passion for teaching by working with the Image Factory Workshops, introducing photographers to contemporary alternative process techniques in photography.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Helianthus, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2019 New Work/Vellum over Gold Leaf, Huntington Fine Art Center, Huntington, NY
2019 Evenfall, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Return to the Muse, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Return to the Muse, Alex Ferrone Gallery, Cutchogue, NY
2017 Whisper Loudly, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Return to the Muse, fotofoto Gallery, Huntington, NY
2014 Whisper Loudly fotofoto Gallery, Huntington, NY
2012 The Forest for the Trees fotofoto Gallery, Huntington, NY
Awards
2021 Honorable Mention (Nature), Pollux Award
2017 Second Place, Elemental Light, Alex Ferrone Gallery, Cutchogue, NY
2017 First Place, Circles, Alex Ferrone Gallery, Cutchogue, NY
2014 Fine Art, Julia M. Cameron Award
2012 First Place, Small Works, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Honorable Mention, National Competition 5, fotofoto Gallery, Huntington, NY
2007 Art Educator of the Year New York State Art Teachers Association