Building On A Bed Of Golden Ferns Photograph

Travis Patterson builds physical depth on top of the two dimensional photographic process by providing other worldly color palettes and juxtapositions that shatter the straight- forwardness and truths that have plagued the medium throughout its history. The intention is to reconstruct histories and symbols of our United states culture through social, historical, and environmental remix. Travis is an artist with supplemental training in art education, agriculture, and ecology. While his career path is dedicated to the therapeutic and passionate outlets that art and education provide, it is the spiritual connection to and the sublime forces of nature that led him to explore art in the first place. As a child, the landscape of rural Virginia impacted him deeply and attending a National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) trek through the Wind River range of Wyoming in high school affirmed his dedication to the idea of wilderness. He has visited 48 states to make photographs and contemplate the role that American culture has played upon the landscape. As Travis has matured as an artist, he has infused more opinion and unpredictability into his growingly complex processes while expanding his oeuvre to include social, cultural and wartime issues in addition to his concerns for the environment. In recent years, Travis Patterson has written and evaluated high school photography programming for the Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), graduated Prescott College a baccalaureate and Frederick Sommer Fellow (AZ), earned his K-12 teaching certification in public school art under the Expeditionary Learning model (AZ), taught photojournalism in a Katrina-ravaged New Orleans (LA), and served on the board of executives for the Prescott Areas Arts & Humanities Council (AZ). He most recently received his MFA degree in photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design (GA) and his since relocated to Boston where he works in the education department of the Institute of Contemporary Art.