Apr 23rd 2023

Patrick Carroll: Dungeness

@ Goldfinch

319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612

Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 3PM - 6PM

On view through Saturday, June 3rd

Patrick Carroll, Dungeness
In the East Wing, Goldfinch is excited to present “Dungeness,” a solo exhibition of new knitted works by Los Angeles-based artist and writer Patrick Carroll.

Stretched like paintings, but knit like garments, Patrick Carroll’s text-based pieces play with what it means to be “permanently under tension,” as the artist describes. As explorations of language’s materiality, Carroll’s text-based knits, or “picture-poem-paintings,” in the artist’s words, employ painterly techniques in regards to the weights and luminosities of color, while exploring relationships between concept, form, material, and linguistics. As Carroll explains, “making text with knits under tension produces an encounter with language that is meaningfully different from language carved in stone, from language painted on a surface, from language printed, molded, woven, etc.” Nodding to the shared etymologies of “text” and “textile” (both from the Latin texere, ‘to weave’), Carroll’s exploration of language through thread and the tension of knitted forms, “allows the pieces to function as ‘portals’ onto the concepts their language describes.”

Bio
Patrick Carroll (b. 1990) was born in Menlo Park, California. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and received his MFA in Fiction Writing at the University of Riverside in 2021. Selected exhibitions include Reading (2023), Giovanni’s Room, Any distance between us, curated by Stephen Truax and Dominic Molon, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island (2021), Installation at the JW Anderson Men’s SS23 & Women’s Resort 23 Show, Milan, Italy (2022), Memoriam, Fuji Textile Week, Fujiyoshida, Japan (2022), Lilac, Moonbeam, and Heavenly Blue, organized by Dove Drury Hornbuckle, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (2023).

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