Grear Patterson

Across the Pond  2014

Acrylic on Canvas

84 x 60 in.

Grear Patterson was born in 1988 in Redding, Connecticut. He now lives and works in New York. He graduated with a BFA in Visual Arts in 2011 and now uses his experience and knowledge to create innovative and pioneering pieces. The underlying motivation for his oeuvre is to create pieces that each have an individual narrative, character and personality and can thus stand alone as well as form part of a collection.

    His solo exhibitions in 2014 include Forest Theatre, at the American Academy in Rome, Italy, Duck Test, at the Ellis King gallery in Dublin, Ireland and Swinging Forever at Bill Brady KC in Kansas City, Missouri. His participation in group exhibitions in the same year includes his presence at DIO C’E’ at the Opere dalla Collezione Agovino in Naples, Italy, The Go Between, The Ernesto Esposito Collection at the Sprovieri gallery in London, UK and I’ve Lost All My Marbles at Total Projects in Athens, Greece.

    Patterson often uses templates to achieve his works: creating a shape to then fine-tune and correct it till it accomplishes his desired aesthetic result and effect. He believes in abstraction, considering it integral to contemporary life, thus injecting his works with an intangible and immaterial quality that renders them almost surreal in nature. His artworks are inspired by ideas and aim to present a tangible form of imagination to reality and creative form. The unique quality that Patterson strives to achieve within each work in his oeuvre reflects the means by which he encourages the viewer to perceive them. He empahasises the importance of taste, originality and individualism, using art to address and question the indefinable and the obscure.