“Christ on a bike” maybe a touch on the blasphemous side for polite conversation but it applies aptly to more than one of the pieces in a new exhibition of artist Richard Patterson’s work – more literally in the case of Your Own Personal Jesus, as a possible exclamation of alarm and confusion when viewing the outright weirdness of Three Times a Lady.
A Young British Artist of note in the late 1980s, Patterson has withstood the test of time, coming out of the other side of Cool Britannia and the 1990s still alive and kicking, but it’s the last 15 years’ output that is being revisited at the Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, to coincide with the launch of a retrospective monograph from publishers Ridinghouse. His large scale oil on canvas creations are often a mix of photorealistic humans with abstract figures and objects, representing the collision of ideas and influences in modern culture. The exhibition will run until 1st June at the Carlos Place gallery in W1.
Richard Patterson
‘Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man’, 2009
Oil on canvas
38 1/8 x 38 3/16 in. /
96.8 x 97.4 cm
Richard Patterson
‘Christina with green necklace’, 2000
Oil on canvas
36 3/4 x 36 3/4 in. /
93.2 x 93.2 cm
Richard Patterson
‘Backyard Ritual’, 2004
Oil on canvas
84 1/4 x 57 1/8 in. /
214 x 145.1 cm
Richard Patterson
‘Anna’, 2013
Oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 26 in. /
51.4 x 66 cm
Richard Patterson
‘Three times a lady’, 1999
Oil on canvas
82 x 57 in. /
208.3 x 144.8 cm
All images © Richard Patterson;
Courtesy Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
