Pat Abernathy

“To me, a painting is not simply a representation of a thing or things.  A painting is about the four edges of the painting surface and how one chooses to lay down the paint within those constraints.”

Pat is a Biloxi native and painter who has shown her work on the coast and throughout Mississippi for many years,.  She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and later went on to serve as an art teacher in the Biloxi Public Schools.  In addition she has taught classes at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and William Carey University.

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