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Join artist Christian Patterson as he discusses his long-form, novelistic projects and how they take shape as books and installations.
We’re thrilled to join Ohio State’s Department of Art in welcoming Patterson, whose works have been described as “subjective documentary of the historical past” by the New York Times. Photography lies at the heart of Patterson’s work, which also includes archival ephemera, drawings, hand-painted signs, monoprints, readymades, shotgun blasts, telephones, and televisions. Patterson’s layered, multiyear projects most often play with archives, authorship, memory, place, and time. His projects have included a five-year investigative retracing of a true crime story; an irreverent, semi-biographical study of his hometown; and a memento mori (a symbolic warning of death) to a grocery store created over a 20-year period. Stay after the talk for a Q&A with Patterson.
IMAGE CAPTIONPortrait of Christian Patterson.
Christian Patterson is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with photography, books, and installation. His books include Redheaded Peckerwood, Bottom of the Lake, and Gong Co. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, New York Public Library Picture Collection Fellow, and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee. His work is in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, and Ogden Museum of Southern Art, as well as many institutional artist-book collections. He was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and lives in New York City, where he periodically collaborates with artists in his garage.
This event is copresented by Ohio State’s Department of Art Visiting Artist Program and sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs.
American Electric Power Foundation
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Mike and Paige Crane
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
The Columbus Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Axium Packaging
Nationwide Foundation
Michael and Anita Goldberg
Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP
Joyce Shenk
Rebecca Perry and Ben Towle
Lachelle Thigpen
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Christian Patterson
