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In 1955, Patricia 'Patty' Faure, returned to Los Angeles from New York. where she had been studying at the New School for Social Research while also doing some modelling for the Ford Model Agency. During her time in New York, she had hung out at the New York Arts Club where she got to know artists such as Robert Motherwell. Wilhelm de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Joseph Cornell. Back in Los Angeles, she once again befriended many local artists, including John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Craig Kauffman and Ed Moses. As they took her to exhibitions, openings and parties, she quickly became part of the vibrant new art world that was beginning to emerge in 1950's Los Angeles, with dealers such as Frank Perls and Paul Kantor opening galleries, alongside edgier spaces such as the short lived, Syndell Studio and its successor, the Ferus Gallery.
