Pat Kaufman, born in NYC, pioneered in Soho and now lives in Sarasota, Florida much of the year. She writes and paints with a comically irreverent scalpel. She celebrates the joy of freedom-to act, speak, think, paint without the irrationally imposed restraints of dusty convention.
 
Painting

Over the years, Pat's canvases and small works on paper have been shown in many galleries located in New York City, Florence Italy, Osaka Japan, Martha’s Vineyard, Beaufort, New Jersey, New Mexico.

Since moving to Sarasota in 2005 her galleries include: The Art Center Manatee, The Art Center Sarasota, The Longboat Key Center for the Arts. Kaos Gallery Village of the Arts Bradenton, The Cornel Museum all Florida Fine Art exhibit Delray Beach, The Selby Gallery, Sternberg Interiors, and twice in the Diversity Art Billboard exhibits in Marina Park.

Stage Works

Her plays are concerned with the puzzles of love, justice, injustice, and psychic, societal and actual imprisonments including ageism. Serious subject, dark humor.

Her many other stage works have been shown at Dixon Place, Caps 21, Wings, The Duplex, National Arts Club, Tenement Museum Theatre, Manhattan Source to name a few.

When her comedy HAMLET'S MOTHERS IN LOVE first played at West Beth Theatre in 1992 she was dubbed "the female Tom Stoppard" and included in Best Scenes & Dialogues of that year. SNOW, an inter-racial love story, claimed plaudits at the 2004 Dublin Fringe, as did her graveyard comedy romance, MIKVAH THE MONEY and CLEOPATRA IN THE MAMMOGRAPHY COURT same year in Vancouver, B.C. 2004.

2006 - Guild Hall and The National Arts Club Food played her BRONTOSAURUS, a mother-lover-daughter communication by cell phone & the human heart. Ohio Theatre Soho, New Jersey Women’s Theatre, Louisville Short Plays Award, THE BEAUTIFUL FACE about plastic surgery, love and the law.

2006-2007 - Frequent readings of SERVING HARD VALENTIME (prisoner brides) in Sarasota, Florida notably at the Backlot. HAMLET’S MOTHER and JELLYFISH SLAMBAKE (jealous mermaids) as Part One of the Regency Neighborly Playhouse.

2008 - October 3rd to October 31st 2008 her video SAVE HER O SAVE HER! and 27 pages of paintings created for the video will be shown at the Manatee Art Center, in Bradenton FL.

A recipient of the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award, she has been a frequent Fellow at VCCA, Ragdale, Djerassi Foundation USA, and the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland.