Biography Patrick Otis Cox

With my art I hope to convey that lifes conflicting opposites of love and pain, developed and undeveloped and light and dark is the reality of our existence.

1955 Born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States

1963 8 years old: First Place Award at the Junior League Art Show, Kentucky State Fair

1974 Studied at the Center for the Arts, Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky

1988 Studied at the Fine Arts Department, University of Central Florida

2001 Studied at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China

Exhibitions (selection) 2005 Built Gallery The China Series solo exhibition, New York City (Soho) 2004 Stuart Museum of Art, Contemporary Form group exhibition, Stuart, Florida Garp gallery, Celebrating Downtown group exhibition, Orlando, Florida. Awarded Best of Show 2003 Travel New York, documentary on galleries, artists, group exhibition, New York, NY 2002 Oval gallery, group exhibition, Orlando, Florida 2001 Artists of Beijing, documentary, group exhibition, Beijing, China Broadcast on the UPN Network Oval gallery, Modern Impressionism solo exhibition, Orlando, Florida. 2000 Roxys Club and Gallery, Night Life solo exhibition, Orlando, Florida. Cocoa Art Festival, group exhibition, Cocoa, Florida. Awarded Best of Category 1998 Banana Cabana gallery, South Beach group exhibition, South Beach, Miami 1997 Cleveland Film Festival, Film and Art group exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio Theatre Downtown, solo exhibition, Orlando, Florida 1992 Daytona Beach Gallery, Expressionism group exhibition, Daytona Beach 1989 Whispering Winds Gallery solo exhibition, Mount Dora, Florida 1986 Maitland Art Museum group exhibition, Maitland, Florida 1984 Eitharong Gallery "But . . . Is It Art?" group exhibition, Orlando, Florida 1983 Cocoa Art Festival, group exhibition, Cocoa, Florida Best of Category 1976 Bardstown Gallery, solo exhibition, Louisville, Kentucky

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Statement:

In my mid twenties I saw a vision of where I want my work to go. It is an abstract view of how the emotional inside can be seen on the outside with the use of color and technique. That is why I love French Impressionism. They started the modern movement of showing the breath of life through their work. Life is so much more than just what we see. Inside we all have rushing feelings of love, hate, happiness, pain, and so much more. It is the responsibility of artist to put those feelings on canvas. An example of this is how the inside stirring caused by heartbreak can actually make us feel a live and somehow better.

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