Opening Reception: Nov 7, 2025, 5-7pm
Closing Reception: Jan 4, 2026, 3-5pm
Artist Statement
These blocks are an extension of my usual grid based two dimensional collages. Each surface differs from the other in either color or design yet combines to create a six part three dimensional mosaic design. Materials come from my collection of antique and handmade papers and ephemera I’ve collected over the years. These blocks invite touch and curiosity. Displayed in this amazing old safe which once locked away the precious, Block Party offers access and discovery allowing the viewer to handle and rearrange these blocks creating new patterns and relationships. What was once secure and hidden becomes tactile, personal and shared.
Artist Bio
Pat Mayer was born, raised and educated in San Francisco. Her work with mixed media began in 2009. She has since studied mixed media and collage with Inge Infante, Juan Luna-Avin, Peter Foley, Michael Shemchuk, Carl Heyward and Stella Zhang and has won both local and national awards, being a signature member of the National Collage Society and a member of Collage Artists of America. Her work has been shown at Kent State University and at the Triton Museum of Art in San Jose, California, Studio Gallery in San Francisco, Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, CA, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and featured in The Palette magazine. In 2017 she was awarded the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery award through the National Collage Society. Pat is a founding member of Project 275, an artist collective in Redwood City where she currently has her studio.
