Anne Patterson is a multitalented visual artist, who has worked in set and costume design for the past 27 years. Her design company is based in New York City, where her work has appeared at Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center; the Juilliard School; the Brooklyn Academy of Music; NY Theater Workshop; the Ensemble Studio Theater; The Joyce; and St. Mark’s Dance Space.
She has designed fourteen operas including one world premiere and three US premieres for the Aspen Music Festival. Her beautiful stage solutions have pioneered set design for symphony orchestras and revolutionized the concert experience.
Anne’s sculptures and paintings have been exhibited at The Marmara Gallery and Wallspace both in NYC and included in the arts festival, “Sevilla Entre Culturas” in Spain. Her paintings are in private and public collections in this country and in London. In addition to her design work, Anne is an active member of the Re-Construction/Construction Advisory Group for Downtown Alliance, a committee that co-ordinates the installation of art at construction sites throughout lower Manhattan.
Ms. Patterson received a BA in Architecture from Yale University and a M.F.A. in theater design from The Slade School of Art in London.
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 Photo Credit: Ned Walker  |
"Elements of Nature: Penny Ashford and Anne Patterson." A painting exhibition at Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence RI, June 25 - August 1.
Exhibition Design for "Conjuring Houdini" at The Jewish Museum in NYC. Opens October, 2010.
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“Cosi Fan Tutte" directed by Jonathan Miller at BAM's Harvey Theater
"Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" by Stoppard/Previn at the Philadelphia Orchestra
"Women of Brewster Place" co-produced by the Alliance Theater and Arena Stage
“Mercury Soul” In 2006 Anne received a Creative Capital Grant to create an installation/musical collaboration with composer Mason Bates. The result was a powerful interaction between Anne’s visuals and Mason’s electro-acoustic and chamber music, titled “Mercury Soul.” The project premiered in San Francisco at Mezzanine on February 1, 2008 and was presented again in May of 2009.
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Directors: Jonathan Miller, Molly Smith, Chris Ashley, Edward Berkeley, Blanka and Jiri Zizka.
Playwrights: Terrence McNally, Wendy Wasserstein, Doug Wright, Nilo Cruz, and Tim Acito.
Conductors: Robert Spano, Donald Runnicles, Dennis Russell Davies, and Jonathan Sheffer.
Composers: Tim Acito, John Adams, Thomas Ades, Philip Glass, Augusta Reed Thomas, and Michael Torke.
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Arena Stage in DC
Alliance Theater in Atlanta
The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra
The Fisher Center at Bard College
Red {an orchestra}, Cleveland, OH
Pacific Northwest Ballet; Ballet West
The Houston Ballet
The Kennedy Center
Wolf Trap
The National Theatre, London and the Scottish Ballet.
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