Patty deGrandpre
Layered Perception
Patty deGrandpre’s mixed media prints combine photography, digital manipulation, monoprinting, and painterly intervention to create layered compositions that explore memory, perception, and visual disruption. Her work transforms ordinary imagery—landscapes, animals, toys, television static, and found fragments—into abstract narratives that feel simultaneously playful, fractured, and psychologically charged.
Blurring the boundaries between printmaking, photography, and collage, deGrandpre constructs images that embrace imperfection, accident, and transformation. Through repetition, layering, and interruption, her compositions suggest the instability of memory and the fragmented nature of contemporary visual culture.
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Selected Works
Each work is a one-of-a-kind mixed media print, combining digital transfer, monoprint, gouache, ink, and layered photographic processes on paper or panel. Click individual works for details or purchase.
Available works typically range from $275–$1,500.
About the Work
Patty deGrandpre works primarily in mixed media and printmaking, integrating digital inkjet transfer processes with traditional monoprint techniques to create richly layered surfaces. Her compositions evolve through repetition, manipulation, and reconstruction, allowing recognizable imagery to shift fluidly toward abstraction.
Drawing from photography, landscape, signage, memory, and popular culture, deGrandpre recombines visual fragments into compositions that feel both playful and psychologically charged. Vibrant color relationships, textured overlays, and interrupted imagery create a persistent sense of movement, instability, and transformation throughout the work.
Her newest body of work is informed by the visual and emotional landscape of relocating from coastal Massachusetts to the high desert of New Mexico. Incorporating accumulated imagery from the transition, the work reflects both the exhilaration and disorientation of displacement, adaptation, and change.
Rather than functioning as straightforward representations, deGrandpre’s prints operate as layered visual experiences that examine how images are consumed, distorted, remembered, and reinterpreted over time.
Biography
Patty deGrandpre is an American abstract mixed media artist based in New Mexico. She received her BFA in Visual Design from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 1987 and developed an early foundation in graphic design, typesetting, and collage illustration before fully dedicating her practice to fine art and printmaking.
DeGrandpre’s work has been exhibited in juried and invitational exhibitions nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions such as Broken Television at Bromfield Gallery, MA. Her work is held in numerous private and permanent collections, including those of Louis Vuitton and Google, reflecting continued recognition from both major corporate and private collectors. Through layered materiality, abstraction, and a distinctive visual language, deGrandpre’s work continues to resonate with collectors and contemporary audiences alike.
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