Patrick Lundeen

Patrick Lundeen är en kanadensisk konstnär född 1978. Han studerade vid Alberta College of Art & Design samt Concordia University i Montreal. 2004 var han utbytesstudent vid Glasgow School of Art i Skottland. Lundeen har ställt ut i hela Nordamerika och Europa och bor och arbetar i Brooklyn, New York.
Lundeens skapande undersöker den dominerande ställningen och sammansmältningen av popkulturella bilder till en bredare känsla. Han arbetar med ett reklambetonat uttryck och avbildar fallna hjältar, pop-idoler och uppförstorade föremål med ett egenartat uttryck och palett.
“Most of the time I paint images that come from my imagination. Sometimes I have carried these images for a long time and sometimes I develop them quite quickly. I then find suitable reference images (usually photographs) that either match the one in my head or – as is most often the case – can serve as a reasonable stand in.” – Patrick Lundeen, utställningskatalog “Midnight creeps”, Wetterling Gallery, 2006.
“One of the most endearing qualities of Patrick Lundeen’s art is that he’s clearly amused by what he paints. This is far from a bad thing. On the contrary. It gives the work a genuine quality that feels as though he’s taking us into his confidence. He paints the pictures he can’t see anywhere else and that appeal to his quirky sense of humor. I think that this is why most artists are driven to create, tha is, to fill a vacuum that somehow aids in making sense of it all. Lundeen is of the global media generation, growing up on popular north American TV and the surfeit supply of soft entertainment and accompanying advertising. Perhaps as a coping mechanism his art provides a means to somehow exert control over this constant flow of images, affording the opportunity for some personal commentary about what amounts to an assault on the senses. Everywhere visual information fights for our attention, crowding into all available spaces and yet still managing to feel somehow mute. Face it, images no longer hold much power on their own”. – Randall Anderson, utställningskatalog “Midnight creeps”, Wetterling Gallery, 2006.