Previous Exhibitions
October 02-October 19 2006 Patrick Holbrook: Fields
"Patrick Holbrook's work investigates power structures, the construction of race and reality, pop culture, language, humor, performance, public intervention, and other themes. It is based in digital media but includes other materials as well, and has been shown by itself at Eyedrum and the Saltworks Gallery Project Room in Atlanta, Mercer University in Macon, A\V Space in Rochester, New York, and in group shows at venues such as the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC and The Shoebox Biennial in Minneapolis. Patrick has been teaching at the Georgia College & State University Art Department in Milledgeville since 2002, where he runs the digital media area, and also taught at St. Cloud State University for one year. He grew up in New Hampshire and received an M.F.A. in Art from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, and a B.A. with a double major in Video Art and Poetry across town at Hampshire College."
Artist Statement
The pens represent the location and amount of air strikes in Lebanon during July 2006.
What we know is determined by what we can see. What we see is determined by what we know. In a feedback loop, things seem to change, but it’s only based on the data that’s already there. New points of reference are excluded. If we can’t break out of the loop, we will be in a perpetual state of war with constructed enemies.
The outdoor drawing is based on a minefield map found on the internet. Would we stand for the production of mines if we had to deal with them in our everyday lives, like so many other people around the world do?
May subjectivity be collapsed by collapsing geographic space?
Unlike the map in the gallery, the outdoor drawing is non-specific: it’s based on a real minefield map, but the location is withheld. How is meaning created when we don’t have the context? How do we imagine remote spaces?
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