Connected.
You’ve surely felt it — we all want to be at home within ourselves while feeling a connectedness to the wider, natural world. But far too often it’s our human condition to feel separated from what was once an all-encompassing Nature. I share my art as a personal representation of that natural world, with images that can help you find a way back toward this connectedness that we all very much want.
Growing up as a rootless Midwesterner, I belonged nowhere specific until transplanting myself to California. I’ve now crisscrossed the Bay Area, Southern and Northern California, and the Central Valley countless times and have been in love with this boundless topography for over 40 years. The undulating farmland, the incessant movement along the shoreline, the mountainsides that are both rocky and verdant all yield a serenity, a sense of having arrived at a place I was always intended to be. Home.
If you ask, Why is it some things make us feel calm, make us feel at home, remember that it is all connectedness. Not just among all living things, but all material things in the cosmos. Beyond the material, it's also the spiritual dimension of energy, creation, consciousness – all of it present within us in the way that it’s within everything else.
The thought of a universal unity has been everywhere recently, from acknowledging the insights of philosophers throughout millennia to the mind-twisting speculations of quantum physics. It was “Everything, everywhere, all at once” in a recent movie title. From Hindu and Buddhist notions of Oneness, arrived at intuitively through observation and meditation, through the Transcendental notions of Walt Whitman’s Float, to the counter-intuitive revelations of macro- and micro-physics that suggest our solid world might not even exist at all as we assume we understand it but rather as energy fields entangled throughout the cosmos — all of it wrapped up in what we have always termed “Nature.” Our universal yearning to be part of the natural world just might be an expression of the undeniable fact that we — everyone and everything — are stardust, made of the same stuff.
I progressed from working within a seven-year career in the Hollywood film industry, to parenting at home, finally to teaching high school English, Art, film, and photography. I now live in a return to that Midwestern beginning — able to share paintings and photography from my home studio full time. Yolo County and the North Coast have given me my subjects, and more importantly, a chance to participate in some small way in the preservation, conservation, and regeneration of our land. Home.
Drawing inspiration from the natural world, and often its intersections with the human presence, I've been inspired by artists including Paul Cézanne, Gregory Kondos, Edward Hopper, and early 20th Century California Impressionists. I engage with the unique character of each location I visit, to suggest the stories that resonate within these spaces. My work embodies a celebration of the quiet, the overlooked, transforming ordinary scenes into reflections on being and belonging. I try to find the beauty of simplicity, to bridge the gap between personal and shared experience. This ongoing exploration serves as a reminder of the splendor in the everyday and the importance of personal connection to our planetary environment.
We come out of the Earth, we belong to the Earth. The Earth belongs to us. You see that, feel that. Bring Nature into your home, into whatever spaces you dwell in with art that speaks to you.
“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.”
— Thic Nhat Hanh
Patrick Cosgrove — Artist’s Résumé
https://www.cosgroveart.com
Juried/Curated Exhibitions
Northern California Arts, “Bold Expressions,” 2023-25
Elk Grove Fine Arts Center, “All Creatures Great and Small” 2023-25
Blue Line Arts, “Membership Medley,” 2024-25
Art Works Downtown, “Intimate Scale,” 2025
California Art Club, “A Summer’s Night,” 2025
Elk Grove Fine Arts Center, “Wide Open Spaces,” 2023-25
Winters Second Saturday Art Stroll, 2025
Pence Gallery, “Biophilia — Longing for Nature” and “Davis Art Studio Tour Preview Exhibition” 2025
LightSpaceTime, “5 for $10” virtual gallery, 2024
Placerville Arts Association, “58th National Mother Lode Exhibition,” 2024
Blue Line Arts, “30 x 30” (30 artworks in 30 days) 2024
California Art Club, “Sensations of Summer” 2024
Blue Wing Gallery, Solo Exhibit of 20 works, “The California Farm,” 2024
Auction fundraisers: Blue Line Arts “Lottery for the Arts,” 2024-25; Pence Gallery 2023, 2025; KVIE/PBS public television, 2020, 2022-25; YoloArts.org, “ArtFarm Gala, 2019-2025, “Bucks for Ducks,” Yolo Basin Foundation,2025
Blue Line Arts, Exhibit of 17 works for “Art at Work,” Roseville Civic Center and Chamber of Commerce, 2024
KBM Art Gallery, “Radiant Red” and “Artistic Animals” virtual galleries, 2024
Viewpoint Photographic Art Center: Solo Exhibit: “Farms of Yolo County,” 2023
Art Works Downtown Gallery 1337, San Rafael, “Landscape Perspectives,” 2023
KBM Art Gallery, “Tranquil and Thankful” virtual gallery, 2023
Elk Grove Fine Arts Center, “California Gold,” 2023
Lodi Community Art Center Photography Show, 2023
Santa Cruz Art League, “92nd Annual California Landscape Exhibition,” 2023
California State Fair, three photos; Category: Black & White, Landscape, 2023
California State Fair, three paintings; Category: Oil/Brushwork, Landscape, 2023
Sacramento Fine Arts Center, “Black and White,” 2023
Red Bluff Art Gallery, “Furry Friends” virtual gallery, 2023
YoloArts Gallery 625, “Near and Far: The World in Focus,” April 2023
Viewpoint Photographic Art Center: “Essential Elements,” 2023
Light Space & Time 12th Online Art Gallery, “Seascapes” Art Exhibition, 2022
YoloArts Gallery 625, “Emerging Artists,” 2021
Pence Gallery: “Exhibit It!” 2021 (non-juried)
Inside Publications 20th Anniversary Cover Art Exhibit, Fall 2015
Publications
Studio Visit Magazine Volume 53, 2025, The Open Studio Press
Cover art, Inside Sacramento Publications: “Inside Arden” March 2025; “Inside Land Park” March 2024, June 2019, and January 2014, “Inside Pocket” August 2023 and April 2022, “Inside Arcade” March 2021
Black Box Gallery, “Black and White: 2022”
Cover photography, New Times magazine
City•Smart Guidebook: Sacramento, Avalon Travel Publishing, author and photographer
Public Art
Five prints on permanent display in patient waiting areas, UC Davis Health Tschannen Eye Institute; Commissioned via <bethjonesartconsultant.com>
Awards
LightSpaceTime, 5th Place Painting, 8th Place Overall (533 entries) for “Barns, Vines, and Mailboxes”; Special Recognition for “Old Sacramento Train at Sunset,” “5 for $10” virtual exhibit 2024
Second Place, Elk Grove Fine Arts Center, “Wide Open Spaces,” 2024
People’s Choice Award, YoloArts.org Art and Ag auction, 2023
First Place, Architecture, Lodi Community Art Center Photography Show, 2023
Featured Artist, YoloArts.org, May 2023
Honorable Mention, YoloArts Art Farm Juried Exhibit, Kurt Fishback juror, 2022
Special Recognition for Excellence in Art, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, 2022
Commission
“Father and Son CycloCross” Wong family, 2020, 24”x36” oil on canvas
Relevant Employment
2008 to 2016: Teacher, Visual and Performing Arts, C.K. McClatchy High School, Sacramento, CA. Courses taught: Camera Composition (Photography); Film Studies; Yearbook Advisor; Introductory Studio Art, all levels of English, and Critical Thinking
• Career and Technical Education (CTE) Credential: Arts, Media, and Entertainment.
Graduate: Directors Guild of America Assistant Directors Training Program, 1979-81 (DGA Trainee)
Directors Guild of America, Second Assistant Director, 1981 to 1986. (Credits include Top Gun, The Goonies, Fatal Vision, Winter of Our Discontent, Brainstorm, Xanadu, Howard the Duck)
Education
ABD (Doctoral Candidacy), University of Michigan, 1977. Film Studies within the Dept. of Speech, Communication and Theater, Program in Radio/TV/Film. Dissertation topic: “Roles and Reality: The Cinema of John Cassavetes.”
AM, Program in Radio/TV/Film, University of Michigan, 1975. Cognate: Photography, School of Art.
BFA, School of Art, University of Michigan, 1974. Majors: Photography and Painting
Supporting Member, YoloArts.org, Pence Gallery, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, California Art Club as Associate Artist, Blue Line Arts
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