Jerome Patryjak
Jerome Patryjak

Jerome Patryjak

  • Michigan
  • Paper

I recall times spent in church respectfully before the stations of the cross, in study of the sculptural reliefs, light and shadow of the wooden forms, highlights and depth created in the figures and background, and being captivated by a depiction of space with shallow...Read More

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Artist accepts commissions.

STATEMENT

I recall times spent in church respectfully before the stations of the cross, in study of the sculptural reliefs, light and shadow of the wooden forms, highlights and depth created in the figures and background, and being captivated by a depiction of space with shallow perspective and suggested distances, and while I have deviated from the spiritual to the mundane my interest is in artwork as a focus for meditation and study. Inspired by folding screens, hanging scrolls and paper, book, collage, pen and ink, my drawings are a dialogue between geometry and free abstraction. Allowing multiple perspectives, with overlapping and visual dynamics. Each has a story to be discovered.
I am working in the realm of visual metaphor. There is no illustration, no reference to the world other than the things themselves. The visuals are self referential, not analogs of reality. I work with what the eye reads in pattern, converging and diverging lines and shapes, with the delight of texture and material. I have been exploring visual geometric fields for many years. I use of a wide variety of papers, paints, inks, and drawing media. The shapes grow out of the material, and are formed into iconic glyphs.
Influences: prints and drawings with fine lines and textures, such as the drama, depth and darkness and light in Rembrandt etchings. Also I look to Japanese block prints and scrolls and screens with shallow space and flat colors, and the implication of deep, continual distances. I enjoy the sequential visual quilts of our modern illuminated pages: comic book art. Here the page geometry is laid out to control time, viewpoint, direction and comprehension. Another touch point, the paintings of color fields, color on color such as the art of Gustave Klimt, who sometimes hints at natural seeming visual space and then contradicts those hints with flat patterns and reflecting gold. More influences include the still, calm studies of the impossible geometry of Josef Albers prints, the contradictory, delightful visual space of Al Held paintings, the jarring, eye manipulations of Bridget Riley op art, the constructed shapes of Frank Stella. I am exploring the surfaces of materials and the significance of darkness, shallow space and suggestions of deep space, star tracks, comet trails, the patterns of waves disappearing on the shore, snowfall clouds and fields, and visual music.

BIO

Coming back to mom’s roots in Calumet, I am a Detroit native and recent UP transplant.
For high school was fortunate to be accepted to study at Cass Technical High School in Detroit in the Commercial Art program. I continued art, design, art history, and hand and machine manufacturing production studies at Wayne State University and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Upon returning to Detroit from Illinois, I worked as an educator, illustrator and graphic designer. I taught at Holy Redeemer High School in Detroit, for the Detroit Council for the Arts Summer Youth Employment Program, with the Artist-in-the-Schools program in Pontiac, as the Artist-in-Resident with Williamston Community Schools, and Baker College.
Eventually I worked in the commercial exhibition industry as a graphic designer. My first project was the museum of the Holiday Inn Corporation at their headquarters in Memphis. Later as manager of the graphics design department for the H. B. Stubbs Company I was responsible for graphic designers, the graphics coordinator and the department interns for the Warren, Michigan and Portland, Oregon studios. It was a great experience working with a team of talented directors, engineers, designers, artists and craftspeople that produced corporate and museum displays installed and utilized all over the world.
My current graphic design work includes book illustrations, cover designs and layout of books. These include the Scarab Club members annual, catalogs for various artists and art organizations, children books and novels.
I am opening my studio in Calumet to do graphic design, but my main interest is in pen and ink drawings, books, and paper constructions.

EXHIBITIONS/SHOWS/COMMISSIONS

Solo Exhibitions—
Gallery on 5th: Woven Paper, July - August 2023, 109 5th St, Calumet, Michigan
The Well Read Raccoon: Standing Books, February - March 2023, Houghton Michigan
ArtPrize 2021: Bistro Bella Vita, September - October 2021, Grand Rapids Michigan
Huron Valley Council for the Arts: Huron Valley Exhibition, August - September 2021, Highland Michigan
Minhas Coffee Haus: The Loft Gallery Artful Discussion #7, April 2019, Mt Clemens Michigan
ArtPrize 9: Bistro Bella Vita, September - October 2017, Grand Rapids Michigan
Scarab Club Artists Lounge: Black/White, February - April 2017, Detroit Michigan
Scarab Club Heritage Room: Sculpture, December 2016, Detroit Michigan
Gallery One: The Extended Ego, the Intimate Id, September 1983, Ann Arbor Michigan
Birmingham Unitarian Church, December 1981 - February 1982, Birmingham Michigan
Pontiac Art Center: Life, Reality, and Other Myths, September - October 1981, Pontiac Michigan
SIU-C School of Art Allyn Gallery, January 1977, Carbondale Illinois
Carbondale Memorial Hospital, December 1976, Carbondale Illinois
SIU-C Morris Gallery: Graduate Exhibition, July 1976, Carbondale Illinois
Group Exhibitions—
Embrace Creatives: Detroit's Mojo Dojo Casa House, January - April 2024, Ferndale Michigan
Anton Art Center: Michigan Annual XLI, January - February 2024, Mt Clemens Michigan
Hopkins Center for the Arts: Arts North 29th International, January - February 2024, Hopkins Minnesota
Bonifas Art Center: Northern Exposure XXX, November - December 2023, Escanaba Michigan
94th Annual Michigan Contemporary Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, September- November 2023, Muskegon Michigan
Gallery on 5th: Summer Collective: Thrive, June - July 2023, Calumet Michigan
Grosse Pointe Artists Association: Follow the Thread, July - August 2023, Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan
Scarab Club: 2023 Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, March - April 2023, Detroit Michigan
Gallery on 5th: Awaken, Spring Collective, March - April 2023, Calumet Michigan
Copper Country Associated Artists: Miniatures, March - April, 2023, Calumet Michigan
Scarab Club: 109th Gold Medal Exhibition, November 2022 - December 2022, Detroit Michigan
Janice Charach Gallery: Flight, June - August, 2022, West Bloomfield Michigan
Collected Detroit: Mighty Real Queer Detroit Exhibition, (ally) June 2022, Detroit Michigan
Anton Art Center: Mighty Real Queer Detroit Exhibition, (ally) June 2022, Mt Clemens Michigan
Scarab Club: 2022 Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, March - April 2022, Detroit Michigan
Grosse Pointe Artists Association: Black/White, March - April 2022, Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan
Anton Art Center: Michigan Annual XLIX, January - March 2022, Mt Clemens Michigan
Grosse Pointe Artists Association: Favorites, January - February, 2022, Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan
Grosse Pointe Artists Association: A Feast for the Eyes, November, 2021- January, 2022, Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan
Grosse Pointe Artists Association: Our Rivers, Our Lakes, September - November 2021, Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan
Grosse Pointe Artists Association: Artists Have Your Say, August - September 2021, Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan
Anderson Museum of Art: 10th Annual Figures of Speech Exhibition, July - August 2021, Anderson Indiana
Lawrence Street Gallery: Summer Invitational 2021, July 2021, Ferndale Michigan
Scarab Club: ArtMile, Online Gallery Exhibition representation, organized by Reyes|Finn and Cultural Counsel in partnership with Red Bull Arts, June 14–July 11, 2021 https://www.artmiledetroit.com/exhibition/scarab-club/
Morgan Conservatory: National Juried Exhibition, April - May 2021, Cleveland Ohio
Scarab Club: 2021 Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, March - April 2021, Detroit MichiganI
Annex Gallery at 333 Midland: Art Fête, March 2021, Highland Park Michigan
Grosse Pointe Artists Association: The Challenge: Try Something New, February - March 2021, Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan
Anton Art Center: Michigan Annual XLVIII, January - February 2021, Mt Clemens Michigan
Northville Art House: Shear Madness: Juried Collage Exhibition, January - February 2021, Northville Michigan
Downriver Council for the Arts: Elemental: Antidote Exhibition, November - December 2020, Wyandotte Michigan
Lawrence Street Gallery: Autumn Invitational 2020, September 2020, Ferndale Michigan
Grosse Pointe Artists Association: Soul Searching Art Exhibition, October - December 2020, Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan
Scarab Club: Uncommon Threads Contemporary Fibers Exhibit, July - August 2020, Detroit Michigan
Grosse Pointe Artists Association: Brotherhood Online Art Exhibit, July 2020, Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan
Starkweather Arts Center: Stay at Home Online Exhibition, August - September 2020, Romeo Michigan
Anderson Museum of Art: 9th Annual Figures of Speech Exhibition, July 2020, Anderson Indiana
Scarab Club: Lockdown 2020 Online Art Exhibit, May 2020, Detroit Michigan
Anton Art Center: Worldwide Online Art Exhibit, May 2020, Mt Clemens Michigan
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center: The Illustrated Accordion Online Exhibition, May – June 2020, Kalamazoo Michigan
Grosse Pointe Artists Association: Sight and Sound, March - April 2020, Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan
Scarab Club: 2020 Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, February - March 2020, Detroit Michigan
Downriver Council for the Arts: Elemental: Wood, Metal, Glass, Clay, Stone, February 2020, Wyandotte Michigan
Scarab Club: 106th Gold Medal Exhibition, November 2019 - January 2020, Detroit Michigan
The Downtown Gallery: Book and Paper Arts Exhibition, November 2019, Indiana University, Kokomo Indiana
Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery: Art4Detroit7, October - December 2019, Detroit Michigan
Detroit Artists Market: Art for the Holidays – 2019, November – December 2019, Detroit Michigan
Starkweather Arts Center: 59th Annual Romeo Guild of Art’s Thumb Area Artists’ Exhibition, August - September 2019, Romeo Michigan
Scarab Club: 2019 SC Plein Air Challenge, August - October 2019, Detroit Michigan
Lawrence Street Gallery: Summer Invitational 2019, July 2019, Ferndale Michigan
Annex Gallery at 333 Midland: All Together Now: A Celebration of Art, Film & Music, April - May 2019, Highland Park Michigan
Anton Art Center: Members Exhibition: 50th Anniversary Edition, May - June 2019, Mt Clemens MichiganI
Anton Art Center: Postcarded, April - May 2019, Mt Clemens Michigan
Orion Art Center Studion at Moose Tree Nature Preserve: Sculptor’s Guild of Michigan, April 2019, Orion Township Michigan
The Downtown Gallery: A Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, February 2019, Indiana University, Kokomo Indiana
Anton Art Center: Michigan Annual XLVI, January - February 2019, Mt Clemens Michigan
Scarab Club: 105th Gold Medal Exhibition, November 2018 - January 2019, Detroit Michigan
N'namdi Center for Contemporary Art: Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, October 2018, Detroit Michigan
Scarab Club: Paperwork Exhibition, September - October 2018, Detroit Michigan
Scarab Club Artists Lounge: Sketch Session Artists, September - October 2018, Detroit Michigan
ArtPrize 10: Cornerstone Church-Heritage Hill, September - October 2018, Grand Rapids Michigan
Lawrence Street Gallery: Summer Invitational 2018, July 2018, Ferndale Michigan
Ellen Kayrod Gallery: Sight Fest 2018: A Feast for the Eyes, December 2017 - January 2018, Detroit Michigan
Scarab Club: 104th Gold Medal Exhibition, November 2017 - January 2018, Detroit Michigan
Headspace Gallery: A December To Remember, November - December 2017, Dearborn Michigan
The Loft Fine Art Gallery: Sculpture Guild of Michigan, September 2017, Mt Clemens Michigan
Headspace Gallery: Hail to the King—a tribute to Jack Kirby, August - October 2017, Dearborn Michigan
The Loft Fine Art Gallery: The Nonsensical Show, August 2017, Mt Clemens Michigan
Scarab Club Artists Lounge: Drawn to Detroit, June - August 2017, Detroit Michigan
Ellen Kayrod Gallery: Annual Summer Open, June - August 2017, Detroit Michigan
Headspace Gallery: Summer Blockbuster, June - August 2017, Dearborn Michigan
Art In Motion Ceramic Studio and Gallery: Three Detroit Artists, June - August 2017, Detroit Michigan
ArtPrize 8: 5/3 Bank Lobby, September - October 2016, Grand Rapids Michigan
Lawrence Street Gallery: Summer Invitational, June 2016 - July 2016, Ferndale Michigan
Scarab Club: 102nd Gold Medal Exhibition, November 2015 - February 2016, Detroit Michigan
Scarab Club Artists Lounge: Sketch Session Artists, October - November 2015, Detroit Michigan
Art In Motion Ceramic Studio and Gallery: Sculpture Exhibition, September - October 2015, Detroit Michigan
Scarab Club Artists Lounge: Sketch Session Artists, January - February 2015, Detroit Michigan
Scarab Club: 101st Gold Medal Exhibition, November 2014 - January 2015, Detroit Michigan
Lawrence Street Gallery: The Twelve Inch Show, December 2014, Ferndale Michigan
Scarab Club Artists Lounge: Sketch Session Artists, April - May 2014, Detroit Michigan
Orchard Lake Galleria at the St Mary Campus: Annual Kubinski Competition, October 1987, Orchard Lake Michigan
Oakland County Complex: Crossings, January - February 1983, Pontiac Michigan
Mill Galley: Anniversary Show, October 1982, Milford Michigan
Pontiac Art Center: Six More Viewpoints, June 1982, Pontiac Michigan
University of Maryland College Park George Meany Center for Labor Studies: Seven Michigan Sculptors, June 1982, Silver Spring Maryland
Mill Galley: Anniversary Show, November 1981, Milford Michigan
International Freedom Festival: Tunnel Vision II, June - August 1981, Detroit, Lansing Michigan and Windsor Ontario, Canada
Pontiac Art Center: Six Viewpoints, April 1981, Pontiac Michigan
International Freedom Festival: Tunnel Vision, June - August 1980, Detroit Michigan
Gallery One: Four Singular Sensations, June 1980, Ann Arbor Michigan
Detroit Focus Gallery: Michigan Chapter of Artists Equity Members Exhibition, January 1980, Detroit Michigan
Southwest Detroit Neighborhood Arts Festival: Juried Show, June 1979, Detroit Michigan
Gallery One: Group Exhibition, June 1979, Ann Arbor Michigan
Hamtramck Public Library: Constructions, Fantasies, Dreams & Fears, November 1978, Hamtramck Michigan
Hartland Art Council: 11th Annual Exhibition, June 1978, Hartland Michigan
Spiva Center for the Arts: 27th Annual Exhibition, April 1977, Joplin Missouri
State University of New York: Drawing Exhibition, 1975, Binghamton New York

EDUCATION

• Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, MFA, major in drawing, Carbondale IL
• Wayne State University, BFA, dual majors in drawing and metal crafts, minor in ceramics, Detroit MI
• Cass Technical High School, Commercial Art, Detroit MI

AWARDS

Purchase Award: Triptych 2 by Bay College, Northern Exposure XXX, Bonifas Art Center, 2023, Escanaba, MI
Second Place Award: ink drawing Triptych 2, Northern Exposure XXX, Bonifas Art Center, 2023, Escanaba, MI
Second Place Award : ink drawings Red Field 3 and Not Knots, Muskegon Museum of Art, 2023, Muskegon, MI
Second Place Award for ink drawing Triptych 2, Black/White, Grosse Pointe Artists Association, 2022, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Honorable Mention for pen and ink drawing, paper construction To The End Of The World, Our Rivers, Our Lakes, Grosse Pointe Artists Association, 2021, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Honorable Mention for pen and ink drawing Lines, Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, Scarab Club, 2021, Detroit, MI
Honorable Mention for paper construction Broken, Soul Searching Art Exhibit, Grosse Pointe Artists Association, 2020, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Honorable Mention for woven paper construction Pyramids and Triangles, Autumn Invitational 2020, Lawrence Street Gallery, 2020, Ferndale, MI
Third Place Award for ink drawing Bathday, 2020 Figures of Speech, Anderson Museum of Art, 2020, Anderson, IN
Honorable Mention for ceramic relief sculpture St Paul, Sculptor’s Guild of Michigan show at the Orion Art Center Studio, Moose Tree Nature Preserve, 2019, Orion Township, MI
Scarab of the Year 2017, Scarab Club Detroit, MI
Appreciation for service as Artist-In-Residence 1982-84, Williamston Board of Education, Williamston, MI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Publication Design—
Scarab Club Arts Annual, Detroit, v13, Kathryn Dimond, Dalia Reyes and Jerome Patryjak editors, Jerome Patryjak cover design and book layout and design, 2023
Jerome Patryjak Drawings, Foldings, Constructions, Works on and of Paper, Jerome Patryjak cover design and book layout and design, 2023
Scarab Club Arts Annual, Detroit, v12, Treena Flannerly Ericson, MaryAnn Wilkinson and Jerome Patryjak editors, Jerome Patryjak cover design and book layout and design, 2022
Scarab Club Arts Annual, Detroit, v11, Treena Flannerly Ericson, MaryAnn Wilkinson and Jerome Patryjak editors, Jerome Patryjak cover design and book layout and design, 2021
Dean Rivard, A life journey of an artist and seeker, Jerome Patryjak cover design and book layout and design, 2020
Poppa Didn’t Play That, Mildred (Millie) K. Burrell author, Jerome Patryjak cover design and book layout and design, 2020
Scarab Club Arts Annual, Detroit, v10, Treena Flannerly Ericson, MaryAnn Wilkinson and Jerome Patryjak editors, Jerome Patryjak cover design and book layout and design, 2020
Scarab Club Arts Annual, Detroit, v9, Treena Flannerly Ericson, MaryAnn Wilkinson and Jerome Patryjak editors, Jerome Patryjak cover design and book layout and design, 2019
Scarab Club Arts Annual, Detroit, v8, Charles Alexander, Treena Flannerly Ericson and Jerome Patryjak editors, Jerome Patryjak cover design and book layout and design, 2018
Jon Strand: Oracles, Temples and Waves...and a dragon called Raoul Exhibition, catalogue with a foreward by Mame Jackson, essay by Matthew Piper, and artist statement by Jon Strand, Jerome Patryjak book layout and design, 2018
Scarab Club Arts Annual, Detroit, v7, Charles Alexander, Treena Flannerly Ericson and Jerome Patryjak editors, Jerome Patryjak cover design and book layout and design, 2017
Visiting Miss Emma, Terrye Anne Stallings-Blevins author, Ida Hawkins illustrator, Jerome Patryjak book layout and design, 2017
She Sparrow, Ted Zahrfeld author, Jerome Patryjak cover design and chapter icons, 2017
Scarab Club Arts Annual, Detroit, Renewal, v6.1, Charles Alexander, Treena Flannerly Ericson and Jerome Patryjak editors, Jerome Patryjak cover design, book layout and design, 2016
Scarab Club Arts Annual, Detroit, v6, Charles Alexander, Treena Flannerly Ericson and Jerome Patryjak editors, Jerome Patryjak cover design, book layout and design, 2016
Scarab Club Arts Annual, Detroit, v5, Charles Alexander, Treena Flannerly Ericson and Jerome Patryjak editors, Jerome Patryjak, cover design, book layout and design, 2015
The Bridge to Anywhere, Phyllis Washburn, author, Jerome Patryjak cover design, illustrations, book layout and design, 2010

Art Center and Gallery Positions—
• Pontiac Art Center House Manager, Pontiac MI
• Mill Gallery partner, Milford MI

Artist-in-Resident—
• Williamston Community Schools
Artist with the Artist-in-Resident program of the Michigan Council for the Arts, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts, Williamston MI

Graphic and Exhibit Design—
• Czarnowski, Contract Graphic Designer, Novi MI
• H B Stubbs Companies, Manager of Warren Graphic Design Studio, exhibit design and presentations, graphic design, Detroit MI
• Good Displays, Exhibit design and presentations, graphic design, Toledo OH
• Design Origins, Exhibit design and presentations, graphic design, Madison Heights MI

Art Instructor, Seminar and Workshop Presenter—
• Baker College Clinton Township Campus MI: Introduction to Graphic Imaging: Photoshop, Intermediate Imaging Techniques: Photoshop, Typography: Adobe Illustrator and InDesign, Graphic Presentation: Second Year Portfolio, Introductory Drawing
• Pontiac Art Center: Art instruction, Pontiac MI
• Pontiac Schools: Artist-in-the-Schools, Pontiac MI
• Detroit Council for the Arts: Art instruction: Civic mural painting instructor for the Summer Youth Employment Program, Detroit MI
• Holy Redeemer High School: Art instruction, Detroit MI
• Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Art Continuing Education: Life Drawing Art Instructor, Carbondale IL
• The Business Of Art For Artists Seminars: Presentation of Artworks; Galleries; Contracts and Insurance; Networks and Resources, Williamston MI
• L’anse Cruese Schools Mt Clemens MI: Hands-on papermaking workshops
• Rosa Parks Community Arts Center Detroit MI: Hands-on papermaking workshops

TAGS

Paper constructions, drawing, collage, books and screens