Kyle Patterson

Kyle’s work touches on many facets of the “ordinary” with a playful and serious tone, leaving all room for interpretation while referencing the tradition and line of conjecture his predecessors laid out.
Kyle’s outside of the box thinking allows viewers the ability to connect with the physicality of the mixed media works while invoking a conversation of distinction, definition, appropriation and nostalgia while engaging the viewer with a sense of reflection on the past and present, his work has this ability to stay relevant in documentation of time and also plays on ideas of space, language and existence, in the sense of title, image, idea or physicality.
This gives Kyle’s work the ability to portray thought without measuring the potential of what is embodied in the work which may or may not suggest fact.
Kyle’s work also speaks to the grounds of foundational learning or understanding and history. A want to explore.
The number studies are an example of just that, numbers written or spelled to suggest a numerical value with the rhythm of known space. Subject to the interpretation of the viewer. Numbers we understand but numbers spelled out, implying we read or speak to understand or factualize our subjugation, as if spelled out ...