Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Little Canvases from my Collaboration with Christopher Straub
The following are sets of canvas pieces left over from Christopher Straub's design creations using my paintings on canvas. These are real paintings of mine on canvas, and I have cut them from amongst all the scraps to select the most interesting areas.
Each canvas is 4x4 inches. They are being sold at Saturday's opening reception of "Fashioned" at the Anita Sue Kolman Gallery for $55.00 each. To reserve yours please contact the gallery.
Anita Sue Kolman Gallery
Phone: 612-385-4239
E-mail: info@askanita.com
Each canvas is 4x4 inches. They are being sold at Saturday's opening reception of "Fashioned" at the Anita Sue Kolman Gallery for $55.00 each. To reserve yours please contact the gallery.
Anita Sue Kolman Gallery
Phone: 612-385-4239
E-mail: info@askanita.com
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| Look#1, left to right 1-3, 4x4 inches each, acrylic on canvas |
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| Look#2, left to right 1-3, 4x4 inches each, acrylic on canvas |
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| Look#3, left to right 1-3, 4x4 inches each, acrylic on canvas |
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| Look#4, left to right 1-3, 4x4 inches each, acrylic on canvas |
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| Look#5, left to right 1-3, 4x4 inches each, acrylic on canvas |
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| Look#6, left to right 1-3, 4x4 inches each, acrylic on canvas |
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| Look#7, left to right 1-3, 4x4 inches each, acrylic on canvas |
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| Look#8, left to right 1-3, 4x4 inches each, acrylic on canvas |
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Donation to Free Arts Minnesota
Someone will be the lucky bidder to take this painting home from an evening of fundraising for Free Arts Minnesota at the Ritz Theater in NE Minneapolis.
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| Painting Study, 18 x 18 inches, acrylic on canvas |
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Fashioned: One Becomes Another
Paintings and found objects get reborn in unique exhibit at the Anita Sue Kolman Gallery
Abstract paintings become haute couture dresses; a chair becomes a birthing place for mushrooms; and vegetable bags become high-design sculptures in an exhibit that explores transformation and renewal.
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| Look #7, Pryor & Straub Collaboration |
August 31, 2011 (Minneapolis)--Project Runway designer Christopher Straub, fiber-art pioneer Nancy MacKenzie, abstract painter Patrick Kemal Pryor, and eco-sculptor Kate Casanova transform ordinary objects and found materials into distinctive artworks in “Fashioned: One Becomes Another,” at the Anita Sue Kolman Gallery, September 10-October 29, 2011.
In a true collaboration between fashion and high art, Minnesota native and Project Runway contestant Christopher Straub turns giant, abstract paintings by Patrick Kemal Pryor into eight designer dresses that function as much as fashion as they do elaborate three-dimensional sculptures.
“It has forced me to develop a new way of painting,” says Minnesota artist Pryor. “I had to worry more about pattern than composition. And I’ve always wanted my paintings to be able to literally move…this collaboration allows that.”
Pryor’s colorful and abstract images were as large as 60 square feet before he handed them over to Straub for re-imagining. The end result is a series of breath-taking canvas dresses that honor Pryor’s aesthetic through Straub’s unique cuts and swirling designs.
“He honored the paintings, used the fabrics and the shapes to inform the designs,” says Pryor. “He transformed them into something of his own but still mine. I love that.”
Minnesota native Kate Casanova also reconstructs objects, turning an old living-room chair into soil for a fruiting mushroom plot. Giant pink mushrooms grow from the cushion, creating a vibrant, living artwork.
“I was really drawn to this idea of taking something and transforming it into something else entirely,” says gallery owner Anita Sue Kolman. “It’s this whole idea of artists using materials in ways they don’t normally do.”
Kolman was drawn to Minnesota artist Nancy MacKenzie’s works for the same reason. MacKenzie sculpts intricate artworks from a mix of bailing twine, plastic vegetable bags, and twigs. Her vegetable bag sculptures are so elaborate and colorful they conceal their humble origin.
“For a long time, Nancy has been using materials in a way that we now call ‘recycling’. And she does it in such a way no artist I have seen ever has. What she creates is really beautiful.”
The opening reception is Saturday, September 17, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. At 7:30 p.m. is the world premiere of original Christopher Straub designs fashioned from abstract paintings on canvas by Patrick Kemal Pryor. Models will display the dresses before they become sculptures on dress forms.
The gallery and reception are free and open to the public.
The Anita Sue Kolman Gallery is located in Studio 395 in the Northrup King Building at 1500 Jackson Street in Minneapolis. For more information about “Fashioned: One Becomes Another” and the Anita Sue Kolman gallery, please visit the gallery’s web site at www.askanita.com or call 612-385-4239. You can also reach Anita Sue Kolman, the gallery owner, at anita@askanita.com.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The Canvas Dress on Kare 11
My dress made out of canvas was featured in this interview with Allison Hamzehpour
of Ignite Models. Next time we'll make sure that the dress travels with it's own press kit so it's creators get proper credit! It was designed by me with strips of torn paintings and sewn together by Stephanie Weber of Artful Decor.
Here's the dress again on the Sol Inspiration Flickr site. Btw, the dress IS for sale!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Forks
I've been making fork sculptures. When I paint and when I create sculpture I want the object or the figure to move as if it is alive. There must always be movement; walking, rearing up, slithering, growing, decaying, falling down, or other-wise changing in some way. They are changing, transforming, or becoming something else. Pictures below:
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Everyday Objects
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| Bedside Bulldog Upside Down |
The Bedside Bulldog sculpture works better upside down. Otherwise it looked too much like a table. This was a piece I created after the New Music Sketch. We are doing our first public performance of the New Music Sketch at the Woman's Club of Minneapolis on Feb. 4th. Email me (patrick(at)patrickpryor(dot)com) if you want to participate in the madness as an audience member.
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| Urchin Pillow Spilling Out |
Urchin Pillow torn open. While in New Zealand I experimented with the broken urchin exoskeleton. I used paper to simulate something spilling out of it. The Maori collect the urchins in great quantities and eat the roe. I collected and ate a lot of it while I was visiting. The insides of the urchin spilling out exaggerates the volume of material that actually comes from a single urchin. The pillow indicates preciousness. The piece is about sustenance; inside versus outside; and preciousness. I am still trying to figure out what I am trying to say, and I am quite happy to have discovered how much more impact the piece has now that I've ripped open the pillow.
New Paintings
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| Red Medium, 36 x 36 inches, acrylic on canvas |
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| Yellow-tailed Squirrel Jockey, 30 x 30 inches, acrylic on canvas |
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The Hatchet Story
When we were younger my sister, my mother, and I would travel together. My father never traveled with us. We would go camping as a family of three. My mother was a very brave woman. I can see this clearly now as I look back on these memories as an adult. She was 42 years old when we took our first camping trip to upper Michigan in a tent she’d never set up before. My mother’s friends all thought she was crazy to go into the woods alone with two young children; one nine years old and the other only three years old. But she had good provisions for the trip. Prior to this trip my father had acquired a small tent by using a number of “coupons” from the Chesterfield cigarette company to “buy” the tent. He was an avid smoker.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
The Blue Fish Story
For being 6.5 months pregnant my sister was quite a “trooper” (as my mother would have affectionately called her). While in Tahiti we decided that my mother’s final resting place would be on a “bed” of coral in the reef somewhere. My mother had come to my sister in a dream several weeks earlier and requested this, apparently. The burial reef was the reef near our over-water bungalow on the island of Moorea. It wasn’t quite swimming near – it was more like small outboard motor near, but we didn’t have a motor. We didn’t have a boat either. I was not going to risk swimming that distance with my pregnant sister.
Artist Statement January 2011
Everything I do now is something that I did as a child; only now I do it bigger. When I was a child I would find things that other people were throwing out and I would build other things out of them. When I found bones in the woods I would collect them, when I found bugs I would collect them, and of course when I found a baby raccoon I kept it as a pet. I did not care for normal toys; I would rather try to revive store-bought chicken hearts with batteries and re-assemble their skeletons after dinner.
I work with abstract yet recognizable forms that are familiar, conjure memories, or hold power. I find myself drawn to physical structure, and I am interested in spontaneous immediate compositions, as I have no patience for anything requiring tediousness. I use play to generate ideas with humor, beauty, and madness.
I work with abstract yet recognizable forms that are familiar, conjure memories, or hold power. I find myself drawn to physical structure, and I am interested in spontaneous immediate compositions, as I have no patience for anything requiring tediousness. I use play to generate ideas with humor, beauty, and madness.
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