Patricia Schnall Gutierrez
Works & Biography

Cake Sculptures - It comes with no surprise to say that mid-20th century American women, in their role as housewives and mothers, were encouraged to take pride in their cooking and baking skills as they devoted their time and energy to their husbands and children. Marketing companies often showed smiling women baking cakes and looking happy and content to be doing that and nothing else. Instant cake mixes were all the rage and from their invention in the Depression to their postwar popularity, they became an expression of American history, ingenuity, and a timesaving alternative for the typical American housewife. As my role as wife and mother, I made hundreds of boxed cakes over the years while juggling career and family. The notion of repeating this cake form with materials other than batter and frosting became a conduit to alter our perception. Each cake takes on its own meaning and carries with it an undercurrent of the feminine condition.

"Each summer I take a couple of months to travel away from the confines of my studio and go back to nature. Upon returning from a two month stay in the New England countryside in 2018, this series evolved. The influence and tranquility of nature continues to play into my work". ​Patricia Schnall Gutierrez

Artist Statement 

Capturing the essence of being female through a prism of intrigue, humor, and absurdity, I offer a fresh perspective on the narratives that shape women’s lives. I believe that we have been fractured throughout eras in media and art history, an oversimplification of women that is mere misrepresentation. I navigate the illusion between past and present, creating a contemporary chronicle of life interwoven with memories of joy, sorrow, growth, and introspection. These emotions need not be simplified, they occur as simultaneous phenomena in individuals' lives. Themes of identity, feminine roles, childrearing, and aging are used as threads in the tapestry of my own experiences. My feminine-based approach to viewing and describing the world extends beyond drawing and painting to include sculpture, installation, performance, and film. Drawing and painting are intentionally calculated, while my sculptures and installations are free associative of what it means to be feminine. Performance and film poetically capture collective female consciousness, recording the stories of myself and women in my community. My experimental approach to layering materials and objects draws viewers into deliberate dialogues that probe questions about gender and sexuality. From April 12 through July 12, 2024, I will present my largest museum solo to date at Burchfield Penney Art Center, SUNY Buffalo State University. In my world, I transform the mundane into the extraordinary, infusing the everyday with unexpected twists. My multidisciplinary approach enables me to consider the relationship of material, process, and outcome. My selection of mediums and methods, both used independently and combined, translate into questions and reflections on the diverse facets of being female in a world that is nuanced with challenges. In this large body of work, I address the need for society to honor women fiercely for their many roles. ​

​ABOUT PATRICIA SCHNAL GUTIERREZ
PATRICIA SCHNALL GUTIERREZ ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Patricia Schnall Gutierrez (b. Buffalo, New York) received her BFA from SUNY Buffalo in 1978. After moving to New York City in 1980, she continued her education at the New York Studio School. She co-founded RPM Projects, dedicated to multI-sensory female experiences since 2011 as a collaborative venture with filmmaker, Rhonda Mitrani, and photographer, Marina Font. Best known for large-scale multimedia installations and short films, the project supports each artist independently and collaboratively. Schnall Gutierrez's work will debut in April 2024 at Burchfield Penney Art Center, SUNY Buffalo State University. She has been included in exhibitions in MOCA Miami, Naples Museum of Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Museum of Florida Art, Appleton Museum, Lowe Art Museum, YAA Museum, Patterson Museum, Burchfield Penney Art Center, MADA New Media, as well as numerous University Exhibitions, Art Fairs, and Galleries in and outside of the United States. Schnall Gutierrez has received numerous artist achievement awards and fellowships over the years and has also been included in private and online auctions. Schnall Gutierrez currently lives and works in South Florida

EDUCATION 1988    New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY 1977    State University New York at Buffalo, B.F.A. (cum laude) Buffalo, NY SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 (Scheduled) Burchfield Penney Art Center, SUNY Buffalo State University, April - July, Buffalo, NY 2023 Love Me Now, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Estero, FL 2023 Patricia Schnall Gutierrez - Charcoal, Black Ship Gallery, Miami, FL 2022 Patricia Schnall, Oil Paintings, Black Ship Gallery, Miami, FL 2020/21    Patricia Schnall, Drawings and Paintings 2019 - 2021, Black Ship Gallery, Miami, FL 2019 Blue, Short Film Screening and Artists talk, RPM Projects, Faena Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL 2019 Fresh Out of the Oven, &gallery, Miami FL 2017 Uninterrupted, &gallery, Miami, FL 2016/17 The House Inside My Head, Boca Raton Museum of Art, RPM Project, Boca Raton, FL 2015 Housewife Diaries, 6th Street Container, Miami, FL 2013   Body, Maps and Territories, Personal Geographies, Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, FL    2012   Domestic Duality, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL 2010 Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, HB Home, East Hampton, NY 2008 Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, Lurie Gallery, Miami, FL 2005 Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, Puccio Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, Maurice M. Pine Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ 2002 Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ 2001 Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, Hopper House, Nyack, NY 1999 Womanhood, Studio 4 West Gallery, Piermont, NY PERFORMANCES 2015 The Credit Bubble, Homo-Sapiens Collaborative, Bakehouse Art Complex, (Collabo 5) Miami, FL 2015 The Trobairitz, Tigertail Productions, MDC Black Box Theater, Miami, FL The Trobairitz, Tigertail Productions, The Related Group, Midtown Miami, FL 2014 The Package Project, TSKY Residency, Key West, FL The Package Project, The Collectors Fair, Miami, FL 2013 Patty Cake, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL 2407 The House Inside My Head, Memorias del Oikos, La Casa Re-Presented, RPM Project    Collaborative, Miami, FL 2012 The Package Project, Irreversible Prize Winner, Miami, FL 2010 Rope and Stool, Sin, Audrey Love Gallery, Miami, FL GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Female Figuratively, Omsa Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Exposed, Art and Culture Center Hollywood, Hollywood, FL Drawing From Nature, Pinecrest Gardens, Pinecrest, FL Belt of Venus, Collective 62, Miami, FL The BluPrnt Show, Bridge Red Studios, Miami, FL 2022 ArtistsStand4 UKRAINE, Fountainhead Studios, Miami, FL Exposed, Art nd Culture Center/Hollywood, FL 2021 Geometry, Color & Rhythm, Mitte Projects, Miami, FL Art in Craft Media, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY Exposed, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, FL 2020 Home Sweet Home, Hartvest Project, PInecrest, FL Exposed, Art and Culture Center/ Hollywood, Hollywood, FL Play Me, Mitte Projects and Wynwood Arts 29, Miami, FL Chandelle, Art Up Concepts, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2019 (716) ART auction, Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo NY Artists Draw their Studios, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, FL Hollywood, FL   Exposed, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL The Moon in the Mirror, Nonoska Huerta Gallery, Aluna curatorial collective, Miami, FL 2018 Dual Roles, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL Rocking Chair Sessions 1-50, Audrey Love Gallery, BAC, Miami, FL Habitat, Work by RPM Project, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL Plush, Art and Culture Center/ Hollywood, Hollywood, FL Exposed, Art and Culture Cente/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL 2017 Aqua International Art Fair, Cancio Contemporary, Miami Beach, FL Aqua International Art Fair, & Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Woman Behind the Threads, Bossa Gallery Design District, Miami, FL 2016 SATELLITE Art Fair, &gallery, Booth 11, Miami Beach, FL Intersectionality, Museum of Contemporary Art - Miami, curated by Richard Haden, Miami, FL You Can Only Understand From A Distance, Triad Gallery,( "A six-week project featuring six of the best video artists practicing today"). RPM Project, London, UK Furtherance, & Gallery, Andrea Nhuch, Bianca Pratorius, Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, Miami, FL Me, Me, Me: New Study of Self Portrait, curated by Luky Cancio, The Laundromat, Miami, FL 2015 Albion Hotel - Rubell Boutique Hotel, Sunday, 12/6/2115, Selected installations, curated by Robert M. Acree. Miami Beach, FL Aqua Art Miami, Cancio Contemporary, Booth 120, Miami Beach, FL The Artists of Art Salon: A Collective Dialogue , curated by Elle Shoor, The Armory, West Palm Beach, FL Dali and MeRochi , MACArt curated by Rochi Lianeza, Fort Lauderdale, FL    Abracadabra, Art and Culture Center, invited artist, Hollywood, FL    The Reunion, Audrey Love Gallery, Miami, FL Annual Interest, Young At Art Museum, invited artist, Davie, FL 2014 2014 Biennial: Outside The Box, Appleton Museum of Art, Installation, Ocala, FL [catalogue]   Errance Provencale, Carpentras, France    Running Free, Like Never Before, Ft. Lauderdale, FL    Annual Interest, Young At Art Museum, Hollywood FL    The Collectors Fair, Miami, FL    Identities In Transit, Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, FL 2013 AQUA Art Fair, Cancio Contemporary, Miami Beach, FL, Stuffed, Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL Fresh Paint Party, LASR Art, Midtown Miami, Miami, FL Oneiric - Beyond Consciousness, Audrey Love Gallery, Miami, FL 62nd Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition, Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL [catalogue]) Papering, Audrey Love Gallery, Miami, FL Collage, Swenson Gallery, BAC, Miami, FL MADA New Media, Art Wynwood, RPM Project, Dot FiftyOne Gallery, Miami, FL Altered Landscape, Lowe Art Museum, Featured Artist, University of Miami, FL Whiskey and Rye, The Nightclub, Miami Design District, Miami, FL Incognito, Patti and Joe Baker Naples Museum of Art, Featured Artist, Naples, FL Annual Interest, Knight Gallery - Young At Art Museum, Hollywood FL Who Does She Think She Is, Delray Beach, FL 2012   Anne-Marie Was Here..., RPM Project, The Screening Room, Miami, FL Context – Art Miami Art Fair, Cancio Contemporary, Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL    IRREVERSIBLE Magazine - Cover Feature 2012 Winners Exhibition, WEC, Miami,FL    Memorias del Oikos, La Casa Re-Presented, Centro Cultural Espanol, RPM Project, Miami, FL Art Live Fair, RPM Project, Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami, FL From Cutler To Paris, Deering Estate, Cutler Bay, FL Wrapt Attention, Gallery 18, Pembroke Pines, FL Appropriated Gender, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Biennial: Florida Installation Art, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL [catalogue] Boca Raton Museum of Art - 61st Annual all Florida Juried Competition, Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL [catalogue] Women’s Perspectives, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL 2011   Biennial Six, Museum of Florida Art, Deland, FL Wynwood Art Festival, RPM Project, Margulies Art Warehouse, Miami, FL Bare Essentials: Minimalism in the 21st Century, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL Structured, Audrey Love Gallery, Miami, FL    Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Audrey Love Gallery, Miami, FL    Boca Raton Museum of Art - 60th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL    What Appears to Be, Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, Cheryl Maeder and Gerry Stecca, LMNT Gallery, Miami, FL    Note, Art Box Gallery, Indianapolis, IN Incognito, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL    Art and Sole, Audrey Love Gallery, Miami, FL Texas National 2011, Cole Art Center/ SFA State University School of Art, Nacogdoches, TX The Conversation Starts Here, Graham Center Art Gallery, Miami, FL Florida International University, Miami, FL Friends of Art, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL 2010   AQUA Art Fair, Cancio Contemporary, Miami, FL Sin, Audrey Love Gallery, Miami, FL The Dolls House, The Women’s Park, Miami, FL RUTA, Juried Exhibition honoring Mexico’s Bicentennial, Miami, FL Boca Raton Museum of Art - 59th Annual all Florida Juried Competition, Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Florida Contemporary 2010, Naples Museum of Art, Naples FL Pryor Fine Art, Atlanta, GA MIA Art Fair 2010, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, FL 2009   AQUA Art Fair, Cancio Contemporary, Miami, FL RED DOT Art Fair, D&G Art Design Gallery, Miami, FL Sensory Overload, BAC Gallery, Miami, FL D&G Art Design Gallery, Miami, FL 5 x 7, BAC Swenson Gallery, Miami, FL    Fresh Paint, BAC Gallery, Miami, FL Select Four/Collective Consciousness, BAC Gallery, Miami FL [catalogue] Form-Function, BAC Gallery, Miami, FL [catalogue] 2008   RAW art space , Midtown Art Fairs, Miami, FL Puccio Gallery, New York, NY RVS Gallery, Southampton, NY Lurie Art Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA Lurie Art Gallery, Miami, FL Art Rouge Gallery, Miami FL 2007 Lurie Art Gallery, Miami, FL RVS Gallery, Southampton, NY 2006 Puccio Gallery, New York, NY RVS Gallery, Southampton, NY 2005 Synagogue for the Arts Gallery, New York, NY Puccio Gallery, New York, NY Cultural Center of River Vale, River Vale, NJ 2004 Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJInteracting Expressions 2003 Rice/Pollak Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2002 Presentations, Williamsburg Art Center, Brooklyn, NY Studio 4 West, Piermont, NY 2001 The Gallery at Media Productions International, New York, NY Rice/Pollak Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2000 Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY Rice/Pollak Gallery, Provincetown, MA Studio 4 West, Piermont, NY World Fine Art, New York, NY 1999 Waterside Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA    Manhattan Transfer, 5th Ave. New York, NY Five Women Artists ,John Harmes Center for the Arts, Englewood, NJ    1998 Mostly Glass Gallery, Featured Artist, Englewood, NJ 93 South Art Gallery, Nyack, NY Studio 4 West, Piermont, NY 1997 Studio 4 West, Piermont, NY 1996 Studio 4 West, Piermont, NY 1992 Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ Art Center of Northern New Jersey, Faculty Exhibit, New Milford, NJ    1981 AAO Gallery, Invitational Group Show, Buffalo, NY 1979 AAO Gallery, Annual Art Competition, Buffalo, NY Williamsville Art Society Invitational, Williamsville, NY 1978   New Talent, Alamo Gallery, Buffalo, NY SELECTED AWARDS 2014 Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs 2013-2014 Artist Access Grant 2014 Private Residency, Carpentras, France 2014 TSKW Residency Program 2013/2014 2012 Finalist: Florida Department of State/Division of Cultural Affairs Visual Arts Fellowship    2012 Irreversible Magazine: Cover Featured Winner 2012 Art Districts Magazine : Open Call Winner featured artist June/July issue 2012 Boca Museum of Art: Award of Merit, Female Forms 2012 Art Slant Showcase Winner, sculpture category 2012 Art Slant Showcase Winner, installation category 2011 Award of Excellence - Museum of Florida Art, Biennial Six Exhibition 2011 Art Slant Showcase Winner, painting category SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY The Miami Herald, Art to See and Touch, The Blueprint show, Bridge Red Studios, January 2023 Miamiartzine, Collective 62 Studio and Gallery: Belt of Venus a Perfect Introduction, March 15, 2023 Art Districts Magazine, Quarantine Diaries. Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, October, 2020 http:// artdistricts.com/quarantine-diaries-patricia-schnall-gutierrez/ Eddie Arroyo, Art is About, Habitat, March 22, 2018 Baba Collective , Live Podcast, Interview with Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, Volume #36, December 2017 BLOUIN ARTINFO “We’ve Curated an Outstanding Group of Widely International Galleries,” Grela Orihuela, Aqua Art Miami, “Cut Loose,” by Patricia Schnall Gutierrez. Oil paint and mixed media on canvas, 80 X 56 inches, at &gallery. December 04, 2017 Luciana Acuna (art curtor, Argentina)"Patricia Schnall, The Feminine Condition", AAL Arte Al Limite, Edition #77, March/April, pages 34-39, Chili, SA ARTDISTRICTS Magazine, Quarentine Diaries - Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, October, 2020 Eddie Arroyo, Art Is About, February, 2016 Shelly Davidov, May’s Wynwood Art Walk guide: Household Chores and Playground Memories, May 8, 2015 Miami Art Guide, Patricia Schnall Gutierrez’s Housewife Diaries at 6th Street container, April, 2015 Eddie Arroyo, Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, 6th Street Container, April, 2015 Muriel Ledoux, Christian Bernard, le Comtadin d'Amerique, ARTS l Vernissage ce soir pour deux artisted americaines et un Carpentrassien de Miami, Le Dauphine Libere, Carpentras, France, June, 29, 2014   Constantly Consuming Culture: Mapanare.us "Cancio Contemporary, Work by Patricia Schnall Gutierrez at Aqua Art Fair 2013", December 10, 2013 Interior Design Magazine, “Interior Design’s Top 30 in Hospitality”, Featured Gallery, “..acrylic and charcoal paintings by Patricia Schnall Gutierrez. 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