Roger D. Patrick
Roger D. Patrick
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Police Action #5, 2020
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
$1,000
Police Action #3, 2020
Oil on canvas
18 x 20 inches
$1,000
Police Action #4, 2020
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
$1,000
Police Action #7, 2020
Oil on canvas
18 x 20 inches
$1,000
Police Action #6, 2020
Oil on canvas
18 x 20 inches
$1,000
"The current pandemic and social unrest has lead not only to uncertain times but also uncertain standing within the community. I have watched with interest as the national dialog has rapidly shifted its view in regard to law enforcement from heroic first responders to racist thugs. These paintings are depictions of police interventions. They apply the aerial perspective so often employed by the news media as they attempt to shape the national narrative. This orientation creates a dehumanizing distance between viewer and subject by flattening the space and by changing objects into pattern. This is a purposeful effort to mimic the alienation that is so quickly attained through the repeated viewing of what so quickly becomes the same news story. These paintings show partial moments without a defined content. It is up to the viewer to use their context to determine the narrative of each."
Roger Patrick grew up in upstate NY splitting his time between Albany's urban environment and the nature of the Adirondacks. Always interested in art, he set that interest aside until his 30s when he returned to art school and eventually earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Minnesota. Roger considers himself a landscape painter, applying this description to his cityscapes as well as his baseball paintings. In both instances he depicts human relationships to natural and man-made environments. His works present ambiguous narratives that are meant to straddle the lines between figurative/abstract, spatial/flat, comfortable/unnerving. The subject matter is meant to have a secondary impact which presents itself slowly as the details are revealed. Even then the reading of the narrative is not meant to be concrete and depends on the point of view of the observer.
Formally, Roger is interested in structure and light. His compositions are viewed from an unnatural point of view, utilizing vertical perspective and awkward cropping to emphasize the temporal quality of the image. His heightened colors produce a believable and consistent sense of light that helps unify the otherwise clumsy compositions and creates a sense of weight and volume to their elements.
Formally, Roger is interested in structure and light. His compositions are viewed from an unnatural point of view, utilizing vertical perspective and awkward cropping to emphasize the temporal quality of the image. His heightened colors produce a believable and consistent sense of light that helps unify the otherwise clumsy compositions and creates a sense of weight and volume to their elements.
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