Is Richard Patterson a Big Baby About to Talk
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 Brit...Read more