A 1993 Los Angeles Times review of her paintings at Angles Gallery in Santa Monica called them "simply gorgeous."

The review continued: "Intimate, potent, compact and expansive, they don't force you to drop dead in their presence as much as they allow you to lose your mind in their sumptuous surfaces and intensely saturated colors."

Patricia Grace Moisan was born Dec. 6, 1951, in Takoma Park, Md., and grew up in Annapolis, Md.

She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland and a master's of fine arts from the Kunst Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, Germany.

After moving to Pasadena, Calif., she earned another MFA at the Art Center College of Design. She taught there and at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.