Patty Mucha

Patty Mucha, also known as Patty Oldenburg, is an American artist, performer, and poet associated with the Pop Art and Happenings movements of the early 1960s. As the first wife of the sculptor Claes Oldenburg from 1960 to 1970, she sewed many of his earliest soft sculptures, including Floor Cake, Floor Cone, and Floor Burger (1962), and performed in his Happenings, including Circus (Ironworks/Fotodeath) (1961) and the Ray Gun Theater series (1962). She was the lead singer of Andy Warhol's short-lived 1963 avant-garde band The Druds. She lives in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont.