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It is Difficult to Teach Bones
2013, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

“In a slight shift of emphasis from earlier work, my most recent works are created by cobbling together scraps of cardboard, old cloth, sticks, string, and putty resulting in small sculptures who then serve as subjects for painting—a process that renders them as dramatic characters and sets them against backdrops which have themselves been pieced together from scraps of other images. In the past, the work has focused on putting nature and culture in juxtaposition with one another using created elaborate digital collages pulled from a large databank of imagery as a basis for paintings.

“Currently, the sculptures are actors in a painterly world that is coming apart and coming back together again. The idea hinges on the possibility of a whole pieced together from the remnants of other things. These paintings consider a moment in time when the process of “becoming form” is caught, stilled, perhaps in transition between states or at a point of realization. The forms contain both urgency and totemic energies, with mysterious figures and apparitions rising out of the planned imagery to float along the periphery of understanding, perhaps pulling us deeper into a communion with the unknown.”

Patte's work has been exhibited in California, New York, Chicago, and Milan. She has had 4 solo shows at Platform and her work has been included in 4 group shows.

5 Painters (group)
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Let Our Beauty Ease Your Grief (solo)
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A Peculiar Brightness in the Sky (solo)
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The There (group)
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Still Point of the Returning World (solo)
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How to Stay Alive in the Woods (solo)
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From There to Here
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