Patrick McDonough - Madison, WI

Exhibitions

SOLO:
2007
We Will Remember This When We Are Old and Ancient,
Though the Specifics Might Be Vague; DeRicci Gallery, Madison, WI
2005
Good Art Multimedia Night Volume Two; Café Montmartre, Madison, WI
2004
Good Art Multimedia Night Volume One; King Club, Madison, WI
2003
Fierce Invalids Converging On Synchronicity; Red Gym Gallery, Madison, WI

SELECTED GROUP:
2006
Patrick McDonough/Karen Copham; Evoke Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota
Northern Art Competition; Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI
Off Broadway 2006; Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
Current: The Aesthetics of
Contemporary Culture; Baton Rouge Contemporary, Baton Rogue, LA
Break the Ice; Gallery 218, Milwaukee, WI
2005
Think Tank; Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI
2004
Over Oceans, Through the Air, Beyond All Borders; Ironworks Factory Space, Madison, WI
2003
Citations; 7th Floor Gallery, Madison, WI

Lectures

March 2007-Visiting Artist Lecture, Edgewood College

December 2003- Lectures on Fierce Invalids Converging on Synchronicity, UW-Madison

Collections

Actual Size Artworks, LLC
My Firefly, LLC
Adam Friedrich
Robert Plesha

Bibliography

Arts Beat column, Isthmus Newspaper, Vol. 29, No. 51, 2004

Education

B.S., Studio Art, 2004
University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI

Artist Statement

My interest in painting is an anthropological one. I aim to establish what precise role painting plays in our collective being, why it exists, and to what end. In what ways does painting differ from, or include, other expressions, such as cinema, tattooing, literature, and fashion; and other two dimensional formats such as advertisements, pattern, and photography. Likewise, how do various sets of painting, (such as murals, portraiture, iconography, and nature studies) coexist, quarrel, and procreate. I aim to not only evaluate the history of painting, and its role in our more broad history, but to forcefully include my work in said history. Much as songsmiths and fiction writers extrapolate personal experience to reach a more universal resonance, I extrapolate my individual tastes in an attempt to find the essence and role of our collective aesthetic experience.