Robert Patterson “I’m Walking Here!”

The FLAG Art Foundation

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The FLAG Art Foundation presents two exhibitions: I’m Walking Here! Richard Patterson curated by Toby Kamps, and Roy Lichtenstein Nudes and Interiors curated by Hilary Harkness & Ewan Gibbs, organized in cooperation with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, featuring a selection of drawing, collage, and sculpture.

9th Floor

I’m Walking Here! is a mini-survey and the first comprehensive presentation in New York of Richard Patterson’s career to date. It chronicles the British-born, Dallas-based artist’s many painterly innovations and pop-cultural inspirations and points to new directions in his work. A veteran of Damien Hirst’s seminal 1988 exhibition Freeze and a leading light in the influential YBA, or Young British Artist, group, Patterson developed an exuberant and sumptuous style he dubs “hyperabstraction.” Made with outrageous skill, humor, and daring, his meticulously constructed images combine elements of photorealism and gestural abstraction in an attempt to update the brushy breakthroughs of 1950s Abstract Expressionism for an era when images travel at the speed of light. They are loaded with countless references — art-historical, cinematic, historic, and psychosexual. To enter the pictorial and psychic space of one of Patterson’s paintings is to tumble into a fantastically overdetermined realm in which distinctions between form and symbol, surface and depth, and sublime and profound are lovingly blurred.

The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the artist by Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, Houston.

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from February 08, 2014 to May 17, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-02-08 from 18:00 to 20:00

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