Patty Wickman

Patty Wickman (born 1959) is an American contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California. Wickman is a professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of California, Los Angeles. Biography Patty Wickman was born in Pasadena, California in 1959. She received her BFA from Arizona State University, Tempe in 1981 and her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1983. From a young age, Wickman was interested in human anatomy. Her brother was a doctor, and she was interested in becoming a medical illustrator. She instead decided to pursue fine art, mainly focusing on the human figure. Although she felt that figurative art was irrelevant to the art movement during this time, she expressed her desire to capture the spiritual aspect of existence through the figure. Patty Wickman is a practicing Catholic, and has stated that the academic and commercial art world has been less accepting of religious artists.