The guilty giggle of a boy who in an instant squeezed an entire case of paint tubes onto his favorite action figure mingles with the distilled silence of a master painter at work for hours throughout Richard Patterson's paintings. The process for these brightly photorealistic, globs of colored brush strokes, begins with Patterson smothering a kiche figurine in paint, photographing it, and then rendering a painting from the image: a reproduction of a reproduction of a reproduction, each time utilizing a different medium to reinterpret the last. Patterson, an alumnus of Goldsmith college in London and member of the loosely affiliated group of beloved misfit artists, the YBA's (Young British Artists), simultaneously points a laughing finger at both his representational and abstract expressionist predecessors, while at the same time drawing from both traditions to make his own coy creations. Does that mean he's chuckling just as hard at himself as he is at everyone else?
Something about his use of space, referencing magazines and photographing, then painting, then photographing again reminds me of your work.
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Thank you, Catherine! This is great. Very similar to another artist I was looking at Eduardo Sarabia who similarly paints form photographs to create a hyperrealistic background then paints "paint" on top.
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