in progress
using palette knife to see where it will go
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
From the studio. Some of these may be still in progress...
These three are each 24 inches by 24 inches
36 x 36 inches
poor lighting in the studio, however, I'll re-shoot outside when the sun is out
24 x 24 inches
I started this one in Ajijic, Mexico last spring, and finished working on it yesterday. I may not do any more to it.
These three are each 24 inches by 24 inches
36 x 36 inches
poor lighting in the studio, however, I'll re-shoot outside when the sun is out
24 x 24 inches
I started this one in Ajijic, Mexico last spring, and finished working on it yesterday. I may not do any more to it.
More Depths to Discover, 24 x 24 inches
Etude #5, 12 x 12 inches
Etude #6, 12 x 12 inches
Etude #7, 12 x 12 inches
further explorations with color and texture. More Depths to Discover is available in Minneapolis, and the Etudes are schedule to go to a gallery in Chicago. Email me with questions and inquiries from my website.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The End, The Beginning, and Everything in Between
72 inches by 96 inches (6 feet by 8 feet)
Acrylic on canvas
Monday, November 29, 2010
More fun from The New Music Sketch
These are some sculptures from last week's New Music Sketch. I took a couple days to go through all the stuff that everyone brought for the event and continued with the madness.
Jim O'Neill and I started doing Music Sketch about five years ago to experiment with musical and visual art collaboration. It's all improvised, totally spontaneous, and a little bit crazy. Our last performance lasted two hours and was created entirely out of things that participants brought to the event. Thank you to all of you. The musicians working with me are Jim O'Neill, Aaron McCabe, Michael McGarthwaite, Mark O'Day, and Justin Hartke. They made music out of all the objects too. Everything was fair game.
scale
sad glasses
rearing up closet organizer
pinned car
pink glasses
Flying Chair
Chair Boy and Shy License Plate
Bedside Bulldog
and of course, I am still making paintings. Email me from the website for pricing.
Jim O'Neill and I started doing Music Sketch about five years ago to experiment with musical and visual art collaboration. It's all improvised, totally spontaneous, and a little bit crazy. Our last performance lasted two hours and was created entirely out of things that participants brought to the event. Thank you to all of you. The musicians working with me are Jim O'Neill, Aaron McCabe, Michael McGarthwaite, Mark O'Day, and Justin Hartke. They made music out of all the objects too. Everything was fair game.
scale
sad glasses
rearing up closet organizer
pinned car
pink glasses
Flying Chair
Chair Boy and Shy License Plate
Bedside Bulldog
and of course, I am still making paintings. Email me from the website for pricing.
A Dress out of Canvas
Stephanie Weber of Artful Decor asked me to design a dress with her for the fund-raising event Fashion + Fusion this year. This is the dress worn by Alison Holmes that won "Most Wearable". One of the judges was a contestant from Project Runway named Chritopher Straub. I made the dress out of old canvases torn into strips and fastened together.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Paintings Available for Sale
Please email me for more details about the paintings if you are considering adding to your collection or beginning a new one.
Many people tell me that my paintings are the first paintings they purchased to begin their art collections. Furthermore, a large number of those people come back to me years later to add to their collections. This is encouraging, and it is also a warning to you. You may not be able to stop.
Island Bay
30 x 38 inches
acrylic on canvas
This painting was painted in New Zealand during my three month residency there. It captures the color and energy of the ocean near Wellington on the North Island. It is named after the Bay where I would get off the bus from "home"and begin my 30 minute walk along the shore towards Owhiro Bay where my studio was located at Nautilus Studios - Hill Yis!
Bacon for Dinner
30 x 30 inches
acrylic on canvas
Named as such because any kind of breakfast food for dinner is more than merely decadent.
Serious Cat
24 x 24 inches
acrylic on canvas
Yes, it is named after an internet meme. My favorite iteration is this one below:
Dramatic Prairie Dog
24 x 24 inches
acrylic on canvas
Yes, this too is named after a funny clip taken from a Japanese video of a children's show:
She's a Premium Person
24 x 24 inches
acrylic on canvas
This painting is named for younger sister's wry sense of humor (only recently discovered by me) and premium character. It is by far, one of my most favorite paintings from the entire Paradisio Series that I created during a recent trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I am quite surprised it has not been snapped up by some aspiring art collector, but I will be quite happy if it never does. The word "premium" in the title comes from its use by a character in the book Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.
The Bengal Liger
3 feet tall by 4 feet wide
acrylic on canvas
Named for its skills and magic.
Little Red
12 x 16 inches
acrylic on canvas
You Know You Want It
3 feet tall by 5 feet wide
acrylic on canvas
Untitled #1
3 feet by 3 feet
acrylic on canvas
Music Sketch #24
4 feet tall by 5 feet wide
acrylic on canvas
James Tyler O'Neill and I have been creating performance based interdisciplinary artworks of sound and visual art for over five years. This is one of them.
Emergence #2
4 feet by 4 feet
acrylic, and mixed media on canvas
This painting takes my design style and messes with it a bit - introducing chaos to order and inspired by the Minnesota winter.
La Rouge
10 feet tall by 6 feet wide
acrylic on canvas
Big, bold, and passionate.
The End, The Beginning, and Everything in Between
6 feet tall and 8 feet wide
acrylic on canvas
Packed full of emotion, this one is.
Many people tell me that my paintings are the first paintings they purchased to begin their art collections. Furthermore, a large number of those people come back to me years later to add to their collections. This is encouraging, and it is also a warning to you. You may not be able to stop.
Island Bay
30 x 38 inches
acrylic on canvas
This painting was painted in New Zealand during my three month residency there. It captures the color and energy of the ocean near Wellington on the North Island. It is named after the Bay where I would get off the bus from "home"and begin my 30 minute walk along the shore towards Owhiro Bay where my studio was located at Nautilus Studios - Hill Yis!
Bacon for Dinner
30 x 30 inches
acrylic on canvas
Named as such because any kind of breakfast food for dinner is more than merely decadent.
Serious Cat
24 x 24 inches
acrylic on canvas
Yes, it is named after an internet meme. My favorite iteration is this one below:
Dramatic Prairie Dog
24 x 24 inches
acrylic on canvas
Yes, this too is named after a funny clip taken from a Japanese video of a children's show:
She's a Premium Person
24 x 24 inches
acrylic on canvas
This painting is named for younger sister's wry sense of humor (only recently discovered by me) and premium character. It is by far, one of my most favorite paintings from the entire Paradisio Series that I created during a recent trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I am quite surprised it has not been snapped up by some aspiring art collector, but I will be quite happy if it never does. The word "premium" in the title comes from its use by a character in the book Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.
The Bengal Liger
3 feet tall by 4 feet wide
acrylic on canvas
Named for its skills and magic.
Little Red
12 x 16 inches
acrylic on canvas
You Know You Want It
3 feet tall by 5 feet wide
acrylic on canvas
Untitled #1
3 feet by 3 feet
acrylic on canvas
Music Sketch #24
4 feet tall by 5 feet wide
acrylic on canvas
James Tyler O'Neill and I have been creating performance based interdisciplinary artworks of sound and visual art for over five years. This is one of them.
Emergence #2
4 feet by 4 feet
acrylic, and mixed media on canvas
This painting takes my design style and messes with it a bit - introducing chaos to order and inspired by the Minnesota winter.
La Rouge
10 feet tall by 6 feet wide
acrylic on canvas
Big, bold, and passionate.
The End, The Beginning, and Everything in Between
6 feet tall and 8 feet wide
acrylic on canvas
Packed full of emotion, this one is.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Foushee Commission Highlights
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Pretty Dead Things Exhibit at Normandale Community College
Pretty Dead Things
Normandale Community College
9700 France Avenue South
Bloomington, MN 55431
Opening reception - Thursday, September 30th, 2010 from 4:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibit runs through October 30th, 2010
Contact me through my website at www.patrickpryor.com
Why bones and dead things?
I am a collector. When I travel and explore the outdoors I collect things from the woods or the shore that interest me aesthetically or otherwise.
I've been particularly attracted to the sculptural form of bones since I was six years old. Bones intrigue me because I am fascinated with internal structure and how it affects the way living things move and how they look. Found bones offer clues to the past, and allow us to understand biological life at a deeper level. Furthermore, I am interested in process and objects that have undergone process. In order for there to be bones there first must have been birth, a life experienced, a death experienced, processes impacting the bones after death, and finally, my own re-configuration and re-presenting the bones. I seek to explore new structures, new combinations and new forms.
About The Exhibit
In Pretty Dead Things I explored the use of color and presentation to attract viewers to found objects from my personal collection that might otherwise repel them. In doing so I hope to present a new idea of beauty.
Along the Mississippi is a record of a late summer walk I took along the Mississippi. I found all of these bones, fish skeletons, rocks, shells, and sand along a half-mile of shoreline. The found objects represent a "curated" story of my excursion. My own unique perspective and propensity (or obsession) for collecting bones guides the material usage, and my re-composition of the objects allows one to experience the pleasure of "finding" each of these objects.
These pink boxes contain found objects presented as pink specimens in storage boxes. The pink is a non-sequitor humorous attempt to associate the object with youth, innocence, and new life.
These skull paintings were an experiment in using a physical object as an inspiration for an abstract work that includes the actual object.
The red in the bone paintings are inspired in part by Salustiano, and it is also an attempt to over-stimulate the eye with an attractive red. It is the same red I use in many of my abstract paintings.
Deer Jaws is composed of found deer jaw bones (and one other random ungulate) to resemble a mouth or other opening. The moth was accidental, but I am pleased with where it landed.
Normandale Community College
9700 France Avenue South
Bloomington, MN 55431
Opening reception - Thursday, September 30th, 2010 from 4:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibit runs through October 30th, 2010
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| red fish, 30 x 38 inches, dried fish, sand, acrylic on canvas |
Contact me through my website at www.patrickpryor.com
Why bones and dead things?
I am a collector. When I travel and explore the outdoors I collect things from the woods or the shore that interest me aesthetically or otherwise.
I've been particularly attracted to the sculptural form of bones since I was six years old. Bones intrigue me because I am fascinated with internal structure and how it affects the way living things move and how they look. Found bones offer clues to the past, and allow us to understand biological life at a deeper level. Furthermore, I am interested in process and objects that have undergone process. In order for there to be bones there first must have been birth, a life experienced, a death experienced, processes impacting the bones after death, and finally, my own re-configuration and re-presenting the bones. I seek to explore new structures, new combinations and new forms.
About The Exhibit
In Pretty Dead Things I explored the use of color and presentation to attract viewers to found objects from my personal collection that might otherwise repel them. In doing so I hope to present a new idea of beauty.
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| Along The Mississippi, 30 x 38 inches, found objects on canvas |
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| pink bird, 8 x 10 inches, bird skeleton, acrylic on canvas, wood box |
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| pink pelvis, 8 x 10 inches, found pelvis, acrylic, wood box |
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| pink skull, 8 x 10 inches, acrylic, wood box |
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| ribs on pink, 11 x 14 inches, found bone, acrylic on canvas |
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| skull painting 1, 12 x 12 inches, skull, acrylic on canvas |
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| skull painting 2, 12 x 12 inches, skull, acrylic on canvas |
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| skull painting 3, 12 x 12 inches, skull, acrylic on canvas |
These skull paintings were an experiment in using a physical object as an inspiration for an abstract work that includes the actual object.
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| bone painting 1, 20 x 16, paper, found bone, acrylic on canvas |
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| bone painting 2, 20 x 16, paper, found bone, acrylic on canvas |
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| bone painting 3, 20 x 16, paper, found bone, acrylic on canvas |
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| red ribs, 24 x 24 inches, found bone, resin, acrylic on canvas |
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| composition with ulna, 24 x 24 inches, found bone, resin, acrylic on canvas |
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| deer jaws, 24 x 24 inches, found bone, dead moth, resin, acrylic on canvas |
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| trophy buck, 45 x 24 inches, bone, antlers, resin, acrylic, wood box |
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| bones on fabric, 30 x 24, found bones, plaster, fabric, acrylic on canvas |
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