Patrick Walsh

PATRICKWALSH/PHOTOMOSAICS®
PATRICK WALSH - BIOGRAPHY
Born: New York City - 1939
Creating Photomosaics since 1970
Even though Patrick Walsh uses a camera for his artwork, he doesn't think of himself as a photographer, nor would he call the resulting pieces "photography." Instead, Walsh approaches his work as a painter might, 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 pieces together. The end results -- flattened out images that show us what we only perceive in our peripheral vision -- are rendered much deeper and broader than the sum of their original parts.

Walsh, who studied graphic design and advertising at the Parsons School of Design in his native New York City, and who painted as a hobby, created his first piece over thirty years ago when he was location-scouting for a feature film. He discovered a location that could not be captured in a single image. So, he shot many, using a Kodak instant camera, and stapled the photographs together. The result intrigued him and Walsh soon found himself making deliberate forays into the Southwe...

Education: High School of Music & Art, Major: Art, New York City
Parsons School of Design, Major: Graphic Design, New York City

COLLECTIONS:
New Orleans Museum of Modern Art
Los Angeles Dodger Baseball Organization Museum, Los Angeles, California - Commission
Baltimore Orioles Baseball Organization Museum, Baltimore, Maryland - Commission
Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hot Springs, AR
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 Department of State, Traveling Art in Embassies Program, Tunisia 2009, Gambia 2012.
ONE MAN SHOWS and EXHIBITIONS:
Orchard Lake Fine Art Show, Bloomfield Hills, MI, “Best of Show” July 2011
Endeavor Arts Gallery, The Art Project Exhibition, Calgary, AB, Canada, April-June, 2011
Desert Art Collection, Palm Desert, CA May & November 2010
Embassy of the USA, Tunisia, April to December 2010
Art of The New Millennium, Desert Art Collection, Palm Desert, CA May 2009
SoHo Studio Gallery, New York, NY June/October 2008
Desert Art Collection Gallery, Palm Desert, CA March/April 2007
Art Rome Photography Competition, First Prize 2007
Art of Photography Show, Juried selection, San Diego, California, April-June 2006
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