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Over the last 15 years, Patrick Wilson has painted some of the most physically resplendent paintings to come out of Los Angeles. His new ones make his old ones look tame, not quite clunky but nowhere nearly as sophisticated as his mind-blowing acrylics on canvas and paper at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Proj- ects. If Wilson were a professional athlete and his game had improved so dramatically, fans would surely think he was juiced.
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Patrick Wilson is on a self-professed quest for beauty in the realm of color and form. His search takes him back to 20th-century abstract colorists and reaches forward into contemporary, technology-dominated, urban life. Such rigorous study of color relationships, careful observation of artificial and natural light, and references to technological motifs yield complex and sublime results.
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If Patrick Wilson tossed a pebble into a pond, the ripples that emanated from it would probably take the shape of perfectly formed squares or nicely
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Just as anticipation is building for “Pacific Standard Time,” the multi-venue collaboration that will reappraise and celebrate contributions
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In contemporary art, a desperation to communicate often conveys merely anxiety on the maker's part. For that reason, I tend to admire the video work
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Monolithic Water’, the latest exhibition in the ‘Picture Ballot!’ series, examines how human beings in general and artists in particular tackle the th
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“The future doesn’t mean so much to us,” says a British retiree in Emmanuelle Léonard’s 2014 video “Postcard from Bexhill-on-Sea.”
Read MoreIf Patrick Wilson tossed a pebble into a pond, the ripples that emanated from it would probably take the shape of perfectly formed squares or nicely
Read MoreJust as anticipation is building for “Pacific Standard Time,” the multi-venue collaboration that will reappraise and celebrate contributions
Read MoreIn contemporary art, a desperation to communicate often conveys merely anxiety on the maker's part. For that reason, I tend to admire the video work
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There's no one work that can stand as a metaphor for the art of the California Biennial, up now at the Orange County Museum of Art.
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José Miguel Sokoloff is on an hours-long layover in Lima in the middle of a business trip to Bolivia and Peru.
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Born in 1970 in Redding, California, Patrick Wilson received a B.A. at U.C. Davis in 1993 and an M.F.A. at the Claremont Graduate University in 1995. Recent solo exhibitions include Evolving Geometries: Line, Form, and Color at The Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech University (2014), Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (2014), Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York (2012), Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco (2012), and Patrick Wilson: Pull, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach (2012). Selected group exhibitions include "NOW-ism: Abstraction Today" at the Pizzuti Collection in Columbus, OH, 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, curated by Sarah Bancroft, Electric Mud curated by David Pagel for the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, curated by Peter Frank, and Gyroscope at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C..
He is currently represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Culver City, CA, and Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe in New York. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
