Untitled (Headpiece) 2011, Graphite on Paper; 86 x 53 cm
DANE PATTERSON
AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN...
Exhibition: NOVEMBER 4 – DECEMBER 18
The Proposition is pleased to present the fourth solo show by Dane Patterson.
Patterson’s recent work operates in the system of portraiture and still life, but to these genres he brings a practice deeply influenced by collage and digital manipulation. The result is a body of work that uses visual repetition to explore the representational impulse.
Patterson’s photorealistic graphite drawings, which have for a while now been his primary medium, require hours of careful and detailed rendering. His recent turn to repetition as content brings to my work a parallel, if somewhat muted, obsessive quality to the subject matter.
This is born out in graphite portraits, such as Untitled (with Katie), where Patterson’s subject is covered in a variety of repeated images: magazine cutouts, photographs of hands, and an image of the actress Katie Holmes.
Likewise, his recent photographs, such as Re-read or Returned to (Book Piles), are repeating still lifes that appear to have been created and manipulated in Photoshop. They are, however 3rd or 4th generation images where sections of printed photographs of the still life have been put back in and photographed again. Through repetition, Patterson multiplies the levels of representation in these works, drawing and photographing images that surround us daily.
AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN...
Exhibition: NOVEMBER 4 – DECEMBER 18
The Proposition is pleased to present the fourth solo show by Dane Patterson.
Patterson’s recent work operates in the system of portraiture and still life, but to these genres he brings a practice deeply influenced by collage and digital manipulation. The result is a body of work that uses visual repetition to explore the representational impulse.
Patterson’s photorealistic graphite drawings, which have for a while now been his primary medium, require hours of careful and detailed rendering. His recent turn to repetition as content brings to my work a parallel, if somewhat muted, obsessive quality to the subject matter.
This is born out in graphite portraits, such as Untitled (with Katie), where Patterson’s subject is covered in a variety of repeated images: magazine cutouts, photographs of hands, and an image of the actress Katie Holmes.
Likewise, his recent photographs, such as Re-read or Returned to (Book Piles), are repeating still lifes that appear to have been created and manipulated in Photoshop. They are, however 3rd or 4th generation images where sections of printed photographs of the still life have been put back in and photographed again. Through repetition, Patterson multiplies the levels of representation in these works, drawing and photographing images that surround us daily.
