Biography
Born in 1950, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Patrick
has lived in various parts of the country until 1970 when he moved
to Southern California to attend California Institute of the Arts.
He received a BFA in 1972. Graduate school was completed in 1974
at UC Irvine with a MFA in painting and photography. His first job
was exhibition design curator at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.
In 1976 he relocated to his loft in downtown Los Angeles where he
lived continuously for over 25 years. In 2000, he and his wife Melissa
moved to their new house in Culver City which he designed and built.
He has been photographing for over 32 years. His photography is represented
by several galleries around the country and he has exhibited his work extensively
in both group and one man shows. His photographic work continues the tradition
of large format black and white photography, concentrating mostly on the platinum/palladium
printing process. One of the founding members of the Los Angeles League of
Platinum Printers, he exhibited with the group around the country until its
demise in 1997.
He uses numerous large format cameras to create his images. These range from
8” X 10”, the 12” X 20” banquet camera and the 18” X
22” mammoth plate camera, some of which are up to 100 years old. Many
of his images are created using old antique lenses as well, giving a distinctive
look to the final print. The main body of his work deals with the nude in the
landscape and more recently with rural and urban documentation. His work reflects
the Pictorialist's sensibility and their belief in Beauty as the prime source
of image making. He had a service to restore and refinish old wooden large
format cameras, as well as the manufacturing of wooden large format cameras
of his own design. He has currently embarked in a new direction in his work
incorporating photographic imagery into large scale constructions, paintings,
and sculpture.
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