The Master Series
Vanishing Islands
A Solo Exhibition of Works by Patrick Vincent
I use drawing, print, and paper structures to explore myth and narrative in graphic and illustration traditions to survey contemporary social and ecological issues. I create mediated experiences as installation and print to reimagine and question our role in the natural world.
The current works in lithography and paper sculpture apply myth as a reaction to climate change. The central forms are suggestions of turtle shells, extinct and extant; these turtle shells act as a metonym for the planet in the mythological/cosmological imagination. The accompanying print, paper, and acetate elements suggest spilling, draining, or flooding—chemical models and textures relate back to ecological anxiety. This myth becomes complicated by the shifting geological epochs as we rethink our current era as a transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene or Capitalocene. The space is meant as a site for meditation on the changing ecology of our planet with regards to human cultures’ connection/disconnection to it.
Patrick Vincent was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota; he currently lives in Nashville, TN. He received his B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and his M.F.A. from Arizona State University. He has worked for Studio on Fire, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Pyracantha Press. Vincent was the artist in residence at the Lawrence Art Center in Lawrence, KS, Grand Marais Artist Colony in Grand Marais, MN, and at the Black Church Print Studio in Dublin, Ireland. He has been a board member for the Rourke Art Museum, Platetone print studio cooperative, and as Treasurer and Board Member for Mid-America Print Council. His work in paper, print, sculpture, and installation has been exhibited in international and national exhibitions as a part of juried and group exhibitions, as well as solo and two-person exhibitions. Presently, he is the Associate Professor of Printmaking at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN.