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- Hometown:
- Long Beach, CA
- Relationship Status:
- It's Complicated
- About Me:
- I am a mixed-media, multi-visual creative Spirit; with a constant focus on sculpture, installation, and performance art. My goal is to promote the ideal of a striving artist; and not the cliché’ of a starving artist. My aim is become more nationally, as well as internationally, recognized in what I do and who I am as a creative entity. I seek to create works of art that are both complex but yet simple at the same time. I endeavor my work to provoke questioning; which is an integral for proper viewing of art. And I believe my new style, URBAN EXPRESSIONISM [now published on Urban Dictionary (dot) com], allows me to be that; both spontaneous and playful, and at the same time serious and precise, with my work. Ideas and words come to me- and many do- in thought particles that are constantly floating in my space. In the feverish play of words where I exist, my mind opens up to receive these particles of thought. As they come to me I play with them, change them; wondering if they are actual words, signs, and symbols. Some are real, but most are not; which I possess and store into my own language library. Then, I let my connection with the Spirit flow through the work. The result is both rhythmically and spiritually flowing in nature. The approaches, as well as the work and the results, are rhythmically disjointed like jazz notes; to make the flow resonate into your soul- your true essence. Spiritually speaking, the work is not only Modern and Contemporary in aesthetics- which is only scratching the surface deep; but also the context of the work is from Christian concepts, symbolism, and sensibility. Although, my affinities are rooted in the Classical and Traditional aspects of art, the appeal of the Modern and Contemporary has been fused into it to make the rhythmical and the spiritual more pronounced; like an adverb- Proverb. Things are etched or scratched out to invoke feeling of intuitive knowing and investigation. There is purity and truth that solely lay within the traditions and classics; but it can also be expressed within the Modern; the Contemporary. So, I endeavor to show this purity and truth in this era- my time. And I believe my time is now.
"Patten’s URBAN EXPRESSIONISM-copyright 2002 style although definitely abstract and modern is anything but vague. There is no denying the message of his work: maybe art is pretension and a sham but the artist is not a sham. It is a sentiment that one can readily believe in when faced with the true nature of a disposable, consumer society. Nothing is real any more so why should art be? And yet Patten strives to confront the viewer with what is real to him, his belief in God, his opinion of how the exploitation of sex, politics, and trend complicates modern society; and his memories of growing up as a person of color in a color-oriented society.....".–Tomas Sustaita; poet, writer, critic.
- Website:
- http://dunespirit.8m.com
- Favorite Artists/Performers:
- The Trinity [The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit], Michelangelo Buonarroti, Caravaggio, Amadeo Modigliani, Maurice Utrillo, Chaim Soutine, Gustave Klimt, Kasimir Malevich [muhl-yaav-yich], Alberto Giacometti [jock-ooh-met-tee], Renee Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Jackson Pollock, Jean DuBuffet, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Thorton Dial, Franz Kline, Kermit Oliver, Joe Havel, David MaGee, Marzia Faggin (FAY-gen) ['Fiat Boo-Boo" is lovely!!], Elizabeth Cencini (Chen-Chee-knee) [I LOOOVE her Vespas!!!], Scarlet Monahan [A phenomenal photographer and sculptress], Staacy Smith, Marie Weichman, Martin DeVore, Shannon Duckworth [what's up Duuuuck??!], Kambui Olijimi, Willem DeKooning, John Linden [Lend-in], Wassily [Vus-yeel-yuhi] Kandinsky, Titian [Tee-shun], Raphael, Paola Georgudis, Joey Grimaldi
- Favorite Visual Art Spaces:
- Museum, Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, Menil Collection, The Art Car Museum, La Casa y Cocina Del Senor L.M., Cy Twombly, Redbud Gallery, G-Gallery, Poissant Gallery, MW Studio Gallery- posthumusly, New Gallery, Lawndale Art Center, Mackey Gallery, NauHaus Gallery, Contemporary Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Dallas Contemporary, The Modern.
- Favorite Performing Art Spaces:
- Wortham Center, Alley Theatre, Zilkha Hall, Barnvelder Movement/Art Complex, Any Sidewalk, Inside My Head, Downtown, Brown Auditorium [for fine films], Miller Outdoor Theatre ['theatre' if on stage; 'theater' if on screen]
A TRIBUTE TO TOMO...."SAYN SPEECH- Do You Hear What I'm SayN (Through The Noise)??!!"
TO A FRIEND....
I MISS YOU ALREADY!!
YOUR FRIEND AND ADMIRER,
DUNE-MICHELI, Spirito creativo
D-M CARPE
I MISS YOU ALREADY!!
YOUR FRIEND AND ADMIRER,
DUNE-MICHELI, Spirito creativo
D-M CARPE
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I'm doing great.... getting ready to move back to Houston!
I'm so excited about it.
I've got two pieces in the Crest Hardware Store show:
It was a great opening... with over 1500 people turning out, inspite of the heat!
News article about show:
http://gothamist.com/2008/06/10/joseph_franquin.php
David Kidd and I at the Crest opening:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8084211@N02/2561786646/
The Little Baker, on display at Crest (in the Smoke Alarm section)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/collinmel/2558892717/
George Clamp-It, on display at Crest (in the clamp section, of course!)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jami/2569631121/
More pictures from the show:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Crest%20Hardware%20Art%20Show&w=all&s=int
Video of the MOST AMAZING PIECE in the show, a Zoetrope:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/collinmel/2559621537/in/set-72157605485645052
Keep in touch Dune, and good luck with your out-of-state shows!
Cheers,
Deb
I WORK UNTIL THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING; WHICH MEANS I OFTENTIMES DO NOT STOP UNTIL 3 OR 4AM. THEN, I POWER NAP FOR ABOUT 15-20 MINUTES; THEN GET UP AND MAKE BREAKFAST, AND DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN. EVERY MINUTE THAT I AM NOT NETWORKING I AM DOING SOMETHING IN MY STUDIO. MOSTLY WORKING WITH SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER
THAT'S HOW I DO IT
I don't know how you're doing 1 work a day. There aren't enough hours in a day.
Ci sentiamo domani.
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