Not exact matches
His canvases look almost like vintage TV screens on the fritz, only in a
vertical format and on the
scale of a wide screen today.
Patrick is well known for his large, high key colour canvases in acrylic, often in series and in a
vertical format, but he also works on a smaller
scale on paper, continually experimenting with small groups of paintings, acrylics on paper, collage, studies for larger paintings or prints, groups of etchings, silkscreen prints and woodcuts.
It will discuss key issues, including those of
scale, tiny to huge; the use of different
formats; the use of the rectangle; the
vertical axis and its significance; the compression of space and depth; space and its meaning; functions and the different kinds of space in abstraction.
While I am very familiar with painting on the conventional rectangle or square I also greatly enjoy the challenges of painting on different
formats whether they are large
scale, on long
vertical and horizontal panels, or on circular, fan - shaped and multi-panel compositions.
Only two paintings in the show are horizontal, and they are the exceptions that prove the rule — the large -
scale Number 88, 1950 (Blue)(1950) has beautifully vibrating color, but feels less individual to Reinhardt, maybe because it evokes landscape in a way that the square and
vertical formats avoid.