Monterey Peninsula Art Forum
Patty Whang
Pretty As A Picture, Collage (found images, text, acrylic skins) on paper, 10.5" x 14", 2018
Website: www.pattywhang.com
Instagram: yellowgrlart
Patricia Whang is a multidisciplinary artist based on California’s Central Coast working across painting and collage. Her practice begins with discarded and overlooked materials, from thrifted ephemera and packaging to printed matter and fragments of her own paintings, drawings, and prints. These elements are torn apart and reassembled into densely built surfaces where imagery becomes partially buried, interrupted, and reformed through repeated layering. Paint, ink, graphite, and printed fragments accumulate across the surface, shifting between construction and destruction. In this process, she considers how meaning is carried through material traces, and how everyday objects are seen, assigned value, or left behind, shaping how attention determines what is noticed and what is overlooked.
She has developed her practice through sustained studio work, art courses at a local community college, a range of workshops, and a summer residency in Nice, France, alongside ongoing experimentation in painting, printmaking, and collage. Following her mother’s passing, Patty incorporated materials found among her belongings, including photographs, letters, and handmade objects, introducing an intimate archival dimension into her work.
Across media, her work is shaped by processes of reuse and transformation, where existing images and surfaces are broken apart and reconfigured into new relationships between memory, history, and perception. These works suggest how what we choose to see and value shapes the way we engage with the world.
Instagram: yellowgrlart
Patricia Whang is a multidisciplinary artist based on California’s Central Coast working across painting and collage. Her practice begins with discarded and overlooked materials, from thrifted ephemera and packaging to printed matter and fragments of her own paintings, drawings, and prints. These elements are torn apart and reassembled into densely built surfaces where imagery becomes partially buried, interrupted, and reformed through repeated layering. Paint, ink, graphite, and printed fragments accumulate across the surface, shifting between construction and destruction. In this process, she considers how meaning is carried through material traces, and how everyday objects are seen, assigned value, or left behind, shaping how attention determines what is noticed and what is overlooked.
She has developed her practice through sustained studio work, art courses at a local community college, a range of workshops, and a summer residency in Nice, France, alongside ongoing experimentation in painting, printmaking, and collage. Following her mother’s passing, Patty incorporated materials found among her belongings, including photographs, letters, and handmade objects, introducing an intimate archival dimension into her work.
Across media, her work is shaped by processes of reuse and transformation, where existing images and surfaces are broken apart and reconfigured into new relationships between memory, history, and perception. These works suggest how what we choose to see and value shapes the way we engage with the world.
Orange Kayser Ad No. 1, Collage (printed materials, oil and watercolor paint fragments, text) on cardboard, 6" x 6", 2025
Ray-Ban Ad No. 1, Collage (printed media, oil & watercolor, text) on cardboard, 3.75" x 5.16", 2026
Sayonara (RE) assembled, Collage (printed ad, ink, found materials) on paper, 10" x 10", 2026
Red Rings No. 3, Collage (printed media, acrylic & watercolor, text) on paper, 2.5" x 3.5", 2025
Resilience Rising, Collage (found Images, ink fragments, gold paint) on wood panel, 10" x 10", 2026