Patrick Driscoll
For the past several years I’ve been painting modest, consistentsize
images that are not traditionally displayed. In the recent
past, I stacked piles of unstretched paintings on the floor, inviting
viewers to make physical contact by sorting through the work.
My current work—now painted on T-shirts and underwear and
stretched on shaped frames—continues this aspect of viewer
contact. The work is suspended from clothes hangers on retail
wall fixtures, and viewers are invited to sort through and arrange
the displayed paintings.
Each painted section—a consistent 22.5 x 25-inch rectangle—is
part of an ongoing image-making project that consults the rich
history and vocabulary of modern painting. This work doesn’t
focus on a particular subject or theme, and has a tone of playful
exploration. I’m attracted to painting that is crude, that has a
dopey logic and reflects the clunky nature of thought. With goopy
paint and soft cotton, this head wanders.