Pat W. Kochan Fine Art
Dallas Series
There is an element of fantasy about Kochan's cityscapes that suggest another era, a suspended moment in time. Buildings are handled with flattened out washes of colors, as are the people who populate the streets, meandering through the composition as if in a dream world. Kochan's color is often strident, perhaps suggestive that she deals with the discordant and isolated feelings inherent in humanity through somewhat disharmonious color relationships. Diffuse color, lost and found edges, figures disappearing into light of shadow. Her somewhat theatrical approach to lighting casts an even more mysterious aspect. What is the time dimension depicted? Who are these people, and where are they going? What are they thinking? Because Kochan leaves some of these questions unanswered, the viewer is free to participate fully in the visual dialogue, viewing the past from the frozen surface of her painting, paintings that are subtle reminders of the evanescence of time and the ephemeral quality of all out lives.
Sold currently in the collection of S. AND c. Siple.
28" x 36" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'Arches 100% acid free rag paper
2015
This painting was from a drawing I did from my childhood memory of Theatre Row in Dallas. As a child, I spent many times downtown, going to movies , shopping and other events.
Elm Street
$2,500 Framed
22" x 30" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'arches 100% acid free rag paper
2010
Fountain Place
$3,000 Framed
41" x 36" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'arches 100% acid free rag paper
1990
Ghosts of Dallas
$2,500
28" x 36" Mixed Media Collage
140 lb. d'arches 100% acid free rag paper
2012
Since the ‘80s, I have continued to add to my “Downtown Dallas Series”. This collage encompassed the Pegasus image with images of my book (Once Upon a Time In Dallas), newspaper clippings and other memories of this series.
Pegasus Collage
Life Under The Freeway
$1,500
30" x 30" Acrylic on Canvas
2000
First Hilton Dallas
$1,500
22" x 30" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'arches 100% acid free rag paper
2012
Magnolia Sculptures
$2,000
28" x 36" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'arches 100% acid free rag paper
Pegasus Over Dallas
$2,500
Acrylic on Canvas
2013
Pegasus VI
Sold as Commission
Unframed
28" x 36" Original Watercolor
300lb. 100% acid free rag paper
2012
Tea Time At The Adolphus
$1,000
22" x 30" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'Arches 100% acid free rag paper
1999
Union Station
$1,500 Framed
20" x 26" Original Watercolor on Yupo Paper
2019
Adolphus Quitting Time
$2,000 Framed
46" x 28" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'arches 100% acid free rag paper
2011
Adolphus Akard Street Window
$1,800 Framed
26" x 32" Original Acrylic on Yupo Paper
2013
Adolphus Parade I
$1,500
22" x 30" Original Watercolor Framed
140 lb. d'arches 100% acid free rag paper
2012
Bus Stop I
$2,000 Framed
22" x 30" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'Arches 100% acid free rag paper
1997
Centennial of Big Red
$2,000
36" x 28" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'Arches 100% acid free rag paper
2015
This painting examines the day I ventured to Downtown Dallas and happened upon a celebration of Dallas courthouse (Old Red) centennial.
People were dressed from that era long ago and with no air conditioning, people had open windows to watch the proceedings.
Dart Bus Stop IV
$1,000
30" x 22" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'Arches 100% acid free rag paper
1995
Courthouse
$1,000
22" x 28" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'arches 100% acid free rag paper
2010
Dallas Sculptures
$6,000 Framed
49" x 41" Original Watercolor
1114 lb. d'Arches 100% acid free rag paper
1999
Featured in Watercolor Artist Magazine:
"I began my art career as an abstract expressionist turned impressionist," says Kochan. "My Work in the last few years, though, is about nostalgia, people, and recording suspended moments in time. It is about surrealistic light linking character with isolated feelings through flatness of form, arbitrary shapes, and emotional treatment of color." (Watercolor Magazine)
This piece is part of Kochan's Downtown Dallas Series.
Elsie in Pink
$2,500 Framed
24" x 40" Original Watercolor
140 lb. d'arches 100% acid free rag paper
1990