Azzlynn Patrick

Artist Bio

 

Azzlynn Patrick is a contemporary fiber artist currently based in Philadelphia. Their work is inspired by their childhood in South Central Pennsylvania, bordering Appalachia. They attended Capital Area of the Arts, a multidisciplinary arts high school, and grew up surrounded by a vibrant grassroots artist community. Drawing from their upbringing in both rural and urban PA,  Patrick uses their dying practice and screen printing to create sculptures and wall hangings that convey narratives of generational cycles and addiction. They earned their BFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, with a concentration in fibers and material studies. Azzlynn has been published in the Summer 2025 issue of YNST Magazine and has work featured in the Queer Materials Lab special collections. Through their work, they seek to examine symptoms of poverty and how people are shaped by these environments. 

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Artist Statement 

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My work explores narratives of poverty in rural communities and how economic hardships shape generational behavior. Rather than rendering images of deprivation, I focus on the emotional and psychological conditions that exist with growing up in these environments. Using bright, fantastical, jewel-toned colors and multimedia sculptures that depict nature contrasted with motifs referencing addiction, domestic violence, and incarceration, creating tension between surface beauty and economic hardships. 

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I am interested in how patterns of survival, harm, and coping recur across communities over generations, and how these cycles are shaped by isolation, limited access to resources, and neglect. References to nature, repeated forms, and color serve as metaphors for entrapment, escapism, and how environments can sustain these structures. Through my work, I intend to present a narrative that does not flatten the experience of poverty but emphasizes the complex perspectives and cycles within it. My work advocated for a more nuanced understanding of families navigating poverty and the conditions that perpetuate it.