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Artist Exhibitions:
Rod has had his works shown at
the Willoughby towers gallery,
the Grove street gallery, the
around the coyote gallery, The
Mandali gallery, The N.A.B.
gallery, the frink-manheim
gallery, and in several
smaller group shows. He was a
founding member of the
bucktown/Holstein park artist
fest, ...
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Artist Reviews:
Rod's works have been
shown in the Chicago Tribune,
the Logan Square Free Press,
The Cedar rapids Gazette, The
North Liberty Leader, The
Chicago Sun Times, The Daily
Ledger, the All About Art
e-zine, The Chronicle, the
Post dispatch, and the Storm
Lake Pilot Tribune.
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Artist Statement for Rod Patterson
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I am fascinated by the pattern within art, especially, though not exclusively, experienced through vicarious involvement with the artist and his/her environment and response to that environment by absorption in the art. When I see the Dolni Vestonice bust, I feel as though I know the artist, or at least something about the environment in which he or she lived and the artistic drive with which they responded to that environment. From this ice age person, I feel that I have learned something about the continuity of our species and its art and perspective. Usually contemporary, though quite often non contemporary artist, and/or anyone else who left us a record of the environment, life, and culture from the dawn of the species to the present, can help us to understand life's experience in it's myriad facets, so when you view someone's work or read or listen to the ancient myths and you hear or see something "new" , a satori opens up, and you cannot help but to know that this "new" was intrinsically apropos.
In the cave art of southern France and the Pyrenees we can discern patterns that reemerge in the sculpture of the Egyptians or the relief's of the Babylonians. When we feel certain of the appropriateness of what we sense, we are all exposed to a universal fabric that binds us all, past and present, into a unified whole. It is this fabric through time and across cultures that I feel when I am able to capture a moment in my art and communicate it to others. When I retell the myths that have inspired some of my sculptures, my audiences receive the stories with the same wonder and delight as listeners have for at least the last 10 millennia. Therefore, if the essence or intent of a feeling or emotion can be held and passed around, it works because it fits the fabric or perhaps, because the evolving fabric fits it.
Happy trails.
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