Patrick McElnea
pmcelnea@gmail.comPatrick McElnea (b. 1981) is a Los Angeles-based artist, curator, and educator. He paints from daily encounters throughout his neighborhood using semi-opaque pigments. Corporate motifs and tree silhouettes are recast as slippages, attachments, and collisions, emerging out of soot and precipitation. The works shown here continue McElnea’s interest in the effects of abstraction since industrialization, and in the misrecognition of everyday experiences.
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McElnea has had solo exhibitions at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY and Daniel Weinburg Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Group shows include KIT, Düsseldorf; Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago; CAVE Detroit; Emerson Dorsch, Miami; David Nolan Gallery, New York; and Marc Jancou Gallery, New York. He has curated exhibitions at project spaces MiM in Los Angeles, and P-r-i-m-e-t-i-m-e in Brooklyn, NY. Residencies include PRAKSIS in Oslo, Norway, and collections include the Rubell Museum in Miami. McElnea received his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2008, and BFA from The Cooper Union in 2004. He has taught at Vassar College, The Cooper Union, The University of Redlands, University of San Diego, SUNY Buffalo, and Buffalo State College.
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