Seescapes: The World at My Feet: James Van Patten - Solo Show
For more than 40 years most of James Van Patten's work has dealt with landscape imagery.
When Van Patten started his career, he was drawing and painting the sky and the clouds. His following series were based on depictions of water and its reflection. And his most recent series is of reflections on sidewalks. These three different series reflect an analogy of the artist growing older.
When he was a young man, he had ‘his head in the clouds’. When he was middle-aged, he tried to notice constantly where he was and what moments of perception could look like in a painting, resulting on paintings reproducing the horizon at his eye level.
James Van Patten is now 85 years old, and as he grew older his body has become ‘stopped and bent’ and looking at the horizon sometimes hurts his neck. The artist describes that he is constantly looking down and being careful with his footing and this has shown him the world in a different way: less scenic and often gritty, but not ugly.
The artist titled the new series ‘Seescapes’ as he is now seeing things in the world that he didn’t see before. These eight new works will be featured in his solo show as well as some of his older work, so we can see how his career has progressed across 4 decades.
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James Van PattenUntitledAcrylic on canvas122 x 122 cm
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James Van PattenGreat Grate IIAcrylic on linen82 x 82 cm
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James Van PattenManhole CoverWatercolour on board40 x 40 cm
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James Van PattenUntitledAcrylic on linen82 x 82 cm
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James Van PattenSurpiseWatercolour on board40 x 40 cm
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James Van PattenRivuletWatercolour on board40 x 40 cm
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James Van PattenUntitledWatercolour on board40 x 40 cm
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James Van PattenTribecaWatercolour on board40 x 40 cm
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James Van PattenOregon CoastWatercolour paper94 x 119.5 cm
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James Van PattenIt's Still Too Wet to WalkWatercolour on paper61 x 86.5 cm
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James Van PattenStudy in blue and red and other coloursAcrylic on linen122 x 122 cm
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James Van PattenOrange on BlueWatercolour on paper94 x 119.5 cm
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James Van PattenStick in the MudAcrylic on linen122 x 122 cm
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James Van PattenAnybody's CoastWatercolour paper27 x 34 cm
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James Van PattenOne MorningWatercolour paper25.5 x 33
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James Van PattenCharlotte Valley SwampWatercolour on paper94 x 119.5 cm
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James Van PattenCold AfternoonWatercolour paper25.5 x 33
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James Van PattenDay GoneWatercolour paper27 x 34 cm
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James Van PattenMarch MarshWatercolour on paper25.4 x 33 cm
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James Van PattenBack At Blueberry LakeWatercolour on paper25.4 x 33 cm