Patrice Erickson grew up in East Hartford, Connecticut. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Central Connecticut State University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with high honors from the University of Michigan-Flint. She furthered her study of classical academic oil painting and Italian Renaissance painting techniques with master artists Frank Covino and Larry Blovits. Erickson now lives and works in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
Erickson is a contemporary landscape artist who paints in oils. Her work is dominated by quiet open fields and richly colored, dramatic skies. Her paintings have been exhibited across Michigan at venues like the Ella Sharp Museum, Midland Center for the Arts, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Detroit Artists Market, Anton Art Center, Scarab Club, Sage Center for the Fine Arts, Starkweather Arts Center, Lawrence Street Gallery, Gallery Uptown, and Rankin Art Gallery. She held solo shows at Lawrence Street Gallery, the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery at the University of Michigan Hospital, and at the University Center Fine Art Gallery at the University of Michigan-Flint.
She originally dedicated her art career to fine art portraiture and still takes on commissions when time allows. Click here to view a sampling of her portrait paintings.
| The artist's recent self-portrait is featured on page 87 in a special self-portrait issue (Vol. 2, Issue 6, 2009) of Poets and Artists by Oranges & Sardines, a quarterly poetry and art publication. |  |
| Patrice's painting titled Girl with Sunflower was included in the hardcover, exhibition book, Richeson 75: Figure/Portrait International 2007 by Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. . |  |
| The book, Best of Michigan Artists & Artisans 2006, includes Erickson's award-winning painting titled Finished. The book was published by Kennedy Promotions at Best of Artists Book Series. |  |
| The artist's paintings were featured in the Fall 2003 issue of Art Showcase Magazine. |  |