PATRICK WALSH - BIOGRAPHY
While Patrick Walsh uses a camera for his design, he doesn't think of himself as a photographer, nor would he call the resulting items "photography." Instead, Walsh approaches his work as a painter may, and paints with the camera itself. The camera is the paintbrush and the photographs are the brushstrokes of his Photomosaics: large-scale ruminations on people, places and things that he filters through the camera lens, then items together. The tip results -- flattened out images that show us what we have a tendency to only perceive in our peripheral vision -- are rendered much deeper and broader than the add of their original parts.
Walsh, who studied graphic design and advertising at the Parsons College of Style in his native New York City, and who painted as a hobby, created his 1st piece over thirty years ago when he was location-scouting for a feature film. He discovered a location that would not be captured in a very single image. Thus, he shot several, employing a Kodak instant camera, and stapled the pictures together. The result intrigued him and Walsh soon found himself making deliberate forays into the Southwestern desert and along windswept Pacific coastlines to seek out subjects for his art.
Each time Walsh pieces along countless pictures that he has shot to make a single image, he tells a brand new story. His subjects are as varied as Dennis Connor fronting his sailboat, an empty baseball stadium, the desert or a verdant rain forest. And whereas the top result may feel spontaneous, the process is something but, says Walsh. Every location is carefully thought-about, revisited, and therefore the work is totally thought out before Walsh opens his aperture to gather the images.
For instance, for a piece commissioned by the Los Angeles Dodgers - a photomosaic of the empty stadium - Walsh shot 26 rolls of film for a piece that turned out to be eleven feet long. That commission led to another, by the Baltimore Orioles. The ensuing seven foot long photomosaic of the new Camden Yards was featured at the ball club's reception for the All Star game. Each works now droop within the stadiums' personal clubs.
Once the film is shot, Walsh shapes the experience with the photographs. "I am making a composition with multiple pictures and yet within those pictures there will be a lovely one all by itself. I am going to place it into the mix. The general impression is what matters to me," says Walsh. "I wish you to step into that image, it's like a window. I wish you to feel you are there."
Additionally to his Photomosaics, Walsh incorporates a distinguished career as a director and producer within the advertising industry. He has won eight "Clios," four "Cannes Lions," an Emmy nomination and over 300 extra industry honors together with 2 films in MOMA's Permanent collection.
Walsh is a director member of The Director's Guild of America
and The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, (The Emmys).
Walsh's work has appeared in museums, galleries and non-public collections
internationally.
Born: New York City
Education: High School of Music & Art, Major: Art, New York Town
Parsons College of Style, Major: Graphic Style, New York Town
PAINTING WITH THE CAMERA?
COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Modern Art, Hot Springs, AR
Los Angeles Dodger Baseball Organization, Los Angeles, California
Baltimore Orioles Baseball Organization, Baltimore, Maryland
New Orleans Museum of Modern Art
Mother Road US 66 Museum, Barstow, California
Palazzo Exhibitione Museum, Rome, Italy
Western America Railroad Museum, Barstow, California
Embassy of Brazil, Rome, Italy
The Oppenheimer Fund, New York City
US State Department Art in Embassies, Assortment of the Ambassador
ONE MAN SHOWS and EXHIBITIONS:
Desert Art Assortment Gallery, Palm Desert, CA May 2009
SoHo Studios Gallery, New York, NY June/September 2008
Desert Art Assortment Gallery, Palm Desert, CA March/April 2007
Art Rome Photography Competition, 1st Prize Worldwide, twenty five,000 entries 2007
Art of Photography Show, Juried selection, San Diego, California, April-June 2006
9517 entries, solely 104 selected for "Art of Photography Show" honor
Agora Gallery, New York Town, NY, March-April 2006
Juried choice, Different Media Exhibition, October-December 2005
Galerie Gora, Montreal, QC, Canada, March 2005
Milford Crossing Gallery, Milford, CT, September 2004-January 2005
Landmark Gallery, Tarrytown, NY, June-September 2004
Turning Purpose Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, 2003
Masters of Light Gallery, Durham, NC, 2003
Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT, December-March 2003 as Featured Artist
Masters of sunshine Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, 2002
Morales Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC, 2002
Nathanson's Fine Art Photo Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2000 - 2001
JazCaf Gallery, Rome, Italy, June 2000
Invisible Dog Gallery, New York City, 1998
BBDO Company Gallery, New York City, 1991
DMB&B Company Gallery, New York Town, 1989
Marylou's Exhibit Gallery, New York Town, 1987
Hammerquist Gallery, New York Town, 1983
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