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Patrick Webb
Patrick Webb studied art at the Maryland Institute/College of Art, Yale University and the Skowhegan School. He has been a visiting artist at many schools and universities, taught at Cornell and Wisconsin/Oshkosh and is now a tenured professor at PRATT Institute. Webb's paintings have been the focus of numerous solo shows in NYC, and his work is part of public and private collections including the Leslie Lohman Museum, the Rose Art Museum, and the Provincetown Art Museum. Webb was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016 and has received three NEA Awards, two Ingram Merrill Awards, an Art Matters Award, and the Thomas B. Clarke Award in Painting from the National Academy.
Artist Statement
One of the longstanding questions regarding my paintings is my insistence on the inclusion in my work of the strange clownish figure of Punchinello. I will try and explore some of what he means and why I choose to include him. First my Punchinello is a cousin of that found in the Commedia dell Arte, As Nancy Grimes writes in her essay for my first Punchinello show in 1993 “ he is slimmer, without hump driven by his sexual appetite and desire to participate”. I first met Pulcinella in Tiepolo’s frescos in the Ca Rezzonico in Venice in 1989 and then later in his great series of drawings the life and times of Pulcinella. In these paintings and drawings Teipolo explored the life of his figure, all the familiar trappings of the ordinary are explored culminating in his death and resurrection, shifting that life from the ordinary to the extraordinary. We are the hero of our lives. In Tiepolo’s work the figure is slightly grotesque with red nose and hump back. I found a mask in a Venetian shop that year, 1989- it had a red nose like Tiepolo’s Pulcinella, but also the diamond pattern I associated with Harlequin. I was immediately attracted to both the Tiepolo Pulcinella and this mask. I later came to understand that this mask was not the contemporary Pulcinella who has black bulbous nose and buffoon character, but rather my mask is similar to the mask of Il Capitano, a figure of power and even brutishness in the Commedia dell Arte improvisational stories. I like this fusing of the outsiderness of the traditional Pulcinella character with the force of Il Capitano. My Punchinello is a distant cousin to the Italian Pulcinella reformed for my own expressive needs. He offers me a surrogate – an I and not I, an o(O)ther, whose experiences explore mine, both real and imagined. By giving me a malleable but repeatable figure these stories un-conceal the movement into being. There is an uncanniness that emerges with his presence in these scenes, that corresponds to my own sense of the strangeness of consciousness and being.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2020 “Covid Dreams” Gold medal Artvita
2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
2004,8,11,15,19 PRATT Institute Faculty Development Grant
2007 MTA Arts for Transit Finalist
1998 Thomas B. Clarke Award in Painting, National Academy Museum
1995 &89 Ingram Merrill Award in Painting
1992 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship
1984,6,8 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 PUNCHINELLO STORIES Ray Wiggs gallery Provincetown Ma
2020 PUNCHINELLO IN CRISIS Leslie Lohman Project Space NYC NY ( scheduled)
2019 THE TINKER TAILOR PAINTINGS , an installation of 62 paintings in honor of Stonewall 50 Pfizer Building Brooklyn NY
2018 WHAT MAKES THE ENGINE GO, IPTAR exhibition space , NYC NY
2018 AT HOME WITH PUNCHINELLO, Rice Polak Gallery , Provincetown MA
2016 PAINTINGS, Rice Polak Gallery , Provincetown MA
2015 TINKER TAILOR SERIES I & II, The Painting Center , NYC , NY
2014 FIRE! Rice Polack Gallery Provincetown MA
2013 LOVE’S PROGRESS: 1989-2013, The Painting Center , NYC , NY
2012 ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ,The Painting Center, NYC , NY
2012 PAINTINGS, Rice Polack Gallery Provincetown MA
2011 NIGHT & DAY , Julie Heller Gallery Provincetown MA
2010 PUNCHINELLO AS OTHER, The Painting Center, NYC, NY
2008 25 YEARS OF WORK, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
2007 PROVINCETOWN-NEW YORK, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown
2005 CHEAT, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2003 HOME, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2002 PUNCHINELLO’S CITY, CJG Projects, NYC, NY
2001 PUNCHINELLO YOUNG , Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1999 IN NEW YORK WITH PUNCHINELLO, Erector Square Gallery,New Haven, CT
1999 PUNCHINELLO UNDRESSED, Julie Heller Gallery, Ptown, MA
1998 PUNCHINELLO WORKS OUT (PWO). Cortland Jessup Gallery,NYC
1996 PUNCHINELLO GOES WEST, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown,MA
1995 PUNCHINELLO IN AMERICA, 55 Mercer Gallery , NYC, NY
1993 PUNCHINELLO PAINTINGS, Amos Eno Gallery, NYC, NY (catalog)
1990 FORUM GALLERY, Minneapolis, MN
1988 CAPRICORN GALLERIES, Bethesda, MD
1987&5 ALPHA GALLERY, Boston, MA
1985&9 KENDALL GALLERY, Wellfleet, MA
1981 ALLEN PRIEBE GALLERY, Univ. of Wis., Oshkosh, WI
1980 RIPON COLLEGE, Ripon, WI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 THREESOME Webb Harvey and Taddei Jadite Gallery NYC NY
2019 THE MALE GAZE:Life Legend Legacy Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay andLesbian Art, NYC, NY
2017 EXPANDED VISIONS : 50 YEARS OF COLLECTING Leslie-Lohman Museum
2015-17 ART AIDS AMERICA curator Jonathan Katz & Rock Hushka., Library Los Angeles, Tacoma Museum of Art , Zuckerman Museum of Art, Atlanta, Bronx Museum, Alphawood Gallery Chicago
2015 DOGS AND CATS curator Nancy Grimes and Leslie Lalehzar, Mark Miller, Gallery NYC
2015 ON THE DOMESTIC FRONT Saslow, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and LesbianArt, NYC, NY
2015 I WANTED BODY AS FORM AND VICE VERSA curator Chris Stiegler Vis AIDS
2014 SECRETLY, FREQUENTLY (COWBOY DRAG) curator Anthony Easton Vis AIDS
2013 RECENT ACQUISITIONS, Leslie Lohman Museum Gay and Lesbian Art, NYC
2013 AMERICAN NOIR INTO A DARK PAST curator Robert Atkins Visual AIDS Web Gal.
2012 NO WASTED WORDS NO ILLUSIONS curator Ann Northrop Visual AIDS Web Gal.
2011 THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES The Painting Center ,NYC, NY
2010 SMALL WORKS INVITATIONAL, The Painting Center, NYC, NY
2010 NEW WALLS /FRESH PAINT, The Painting Center, NYC, NY
2009 TOP TO BOTTOM:A HUDSON RIVER ARTS MAP, Hopper House, Nyack NY
2008 CARBONE. GRIMES & WEBB, The Painting Center , NYC NY
2007 ECLIPSE curator Laura Gilbert Visual AIDS Web
2007 LIFEDRAWING, LGBT Center, New York City, NY
2005 MALE DESIRE, curator J. Weinberg, Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC, NY
2005 CROSSING DISCIPLINES, curator Donna Moran, Schaffler Gallery PRATT Institute,
2005 THE BODY AND ITS DANGERS, curator by Patrick Webb, The Painting Center, NYC N
2004 ARTIVIST FILM & ART FESTIVAL, Egyptian Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2004 PYROLYSIS curator Virgil Wong. Visual AIDS Web
2004 NEO QUEER, CoCA, Seattle, WA
2003 STIRRINGS curators Dirk Dhener and Sharp\ Visual AIDS Web
2002 TRANSFORMATIONS, Sakia City Museum Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2001 RITUAL , DAM , Detroit , MI
2001 SELF INTEREST: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MYTH IN RECENT FIGURATIVE ART, curator Nancy Grimes, RC FINE ARTS, Maplewood NJ
1998 THE 173rd ANNUAL EXHIBITION, National Academy Of Design, NYC, NY
1998 EMBODIED FICTIONS, Saint Mary's College, Park Hall, MD ( catalog)
1998 TROUBLING CUSTOMS, Ontario College of Art & Design Gallery Katherine Lane Weeds Center, The Sch.of the MFA , Boston
1997 PROVINCETOWN IN HUDSON, Carrie Haddad Gallery, HUDSON NY
1995 THE NEW AMERICAN FAMILY, SUNY , Stoneybrook Gal, Stoneybrook, LI
1995 THE COMMON MYTH: icon and symbol in art today, curator Ludwig Datone ́, Park Avenue Atrium, NYC, NY
1995 SPIRITS AND HEROES, Peter Madero Gallery, NYC, NY
1994 A SENSIBILITY AND THE SENSES, Lowe at the Hudson Guild, NYC, NY
1994 TONGUE 'N CHEEK, 450 Broadway Gallery, NYC, NY
1993 MEMENTO MORI: remembering in t the age of AIDS, Open Space Gallery Allentown, PA
1993 NEW OLD MASTER,, curator Paula Escobar, Marymount Col., NYC, NY
1993 ASPECTS OF FIGURATION: SELECTIONS FROM THE NEW YORK ACADEMY, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 FIGURING IT OUT, curator Nancy Grimes, Daniel Quinn Gal, LIC,. NY
1991 TOMPKINS, WEBB, ZAZARRO, RINALDI, VIOLA , Claude Gallery, East Chester, NY 1990 SELECTIONS curator Connie Butler, 55 Mercer St., NYC, NY
1990 POSITIVE ACTIONS: VISUAL AIDS, Clocktower Gallery, Longwood Gallery, D.C. 37 Gallery, New York, NY
1989-90 ART AND THE LAW; West Co., Bally's Casino, Reno NV; AK UnivJonesboro AK; Robert I. Kahn Gallery, Houston , TX ; MN Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
1988-9 ART AND THE LAW, West Co. ; Metro Toronto convention Center,Toronto CAN; Virginia Commonwealth U., Richmond VA; Temple U, Phil. PA; Rose Art Mus 1989 "...the Subject is AIDS", Nexus Art Center, Atlanta, GA(cat)
1987 "CURATOR'S CHOICE", curator Bill Arning, BWAC, Bklyn, NY
1987 MAINSTREAM AMERICA; THE COLLECTION OF PHIL DESIND; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH
1984 "MODERN MASTERS OF CLASSICAL REALISM", Priebe Gal, UW-O, WI
1983 SUMMER SHOW, Odyssia Galleries, New York, NY
1983 NEW TALENT, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1982 EVERSON BIENNALE, curator Nancy Hoffman, Everson Mus, Syr , NY
COMMISSIONS
2007 PUNCHINELLO JUGGLES FOR LOLLY POP, Milwaukee, WI
1995 ART MATTERS, 2 Lithographs, NYC, NY
1995 Barry Skovgaard., Landscape, Watermill, NY
1993 William Jennings Doyle. portrait, Boston, MA
1992 Phillip Gambone, portrait, Boston, MA
1988 SHARF MARKETING GROUP, installation, Boston
1987 SHARF MARKETING GROUP, installation, New York
1986 GLICKENHAUSE & CO., mural installation, New York
1980 Donna Kennedy, portrait, Las Vegas, NV
SELECTED PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, Boston, MA
GLICKENHAUS & CO., New York, NY
HORTON & CALAMIFDE, New York, NY
INTERNEURON INC., Boston, MA
JANE VOORHEES ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM, RUGERS UNIVERSITY, New Brunswick
LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART . NYC, NY
OTIS ELEVATOR, New York, NY
PIER-FINE ASSOCIATES, New York, NY
PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION & MUSEUM, Provincetown, MA
ROSE ART MUSEUM , Brandeis University, Waltham MA
QUEENSBORO COLLEGE MUSEUM, CUNY, Queens, NY
MICHELLE ROSENFELD, INC., FINE ARTS, Ramsey, NJ
SHARF MARKETING GROUP, New York & Boston
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-OSHKOSH, Oshkosh, WI
PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Queer Holdings” Casals & Parness, 2019
“Art Aids America” Chicago Tribune photo reprodutction 1/17/17
“Cape Cod Artists: People and Places” D Forman, Scribner Books, June 2014
“Protest, Memorial: AIDS in the Art World “ Barbara Pollack, Art News May 2014
“Patrick Webb ; The Heroic Journey of Punchinello.” Philip Gambone. , Provincetown Arts Magazine , 2012/14
New York One interview “Sword of Damocles “ 11/29/11
“ Punchinello Hits the Gym”, David Cohen, NY Sun, 9/24/10
“Patrick Webb: Punchinello as Other and Caren Canier “ John Goodrich, City Arts, 9/14/10
“ Stripped” & “Completely Stripped”, Bruno Gmunder Publication, 7/ 09
“David Carbone, Nancy Grimes & Patrick Webb” Alex Taylor, Art News , 1/09
“Treasures of Gay Art from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation” edited Peter Weierman, All Saints Press, 2008
“Webb Finds Truth in Anonymity of an Everyman” Sue Harrison, Provincetown Banner 3/15/08
Kunitz, Stanley “ Patrick Webb:: 25 Years of Work” , catalog notes , PAAM, 2008
" Nancy Webb by Patrick Webb", catalog essay Provincetown Art Assoc. & Museum3/06 reprinted in 2006 summer issue of Provincetown Arts
" The Body and Its Dangers" , Robert Ayers, Art News, summer 2005
" Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art" Jonathan Weinberg, Abrams 2005
“Webb Takes an Outsider’s Look”. Deborah Minsky, Provincetown Banner, 7/17/03
Cover, reproductions and introduction, The Georgia Review, summer 2002
"Punchinello Works Out", Jonathan Weinberg, catalog essay 5/98
Listings, New Yorker Magazine , April 6, 1998
"Provincetown On Hudson", Ned Depew, Provincetown Arts, 1997-8
"A Punchinello Page" (illustration) ; College Art Association) Journal , winter 1996-7
"Patrick Webb's Adventures With Punchinello" , Stephen Greco, POZ Dec 96/January 97
"Portrait of an Artist", Lynn Stanley, Provincetown Magazine, 8/22/96
"Punchinello Goes West", Mark Doty, catalog essay 8/96
"A Life Reinvented: The Paintings of Patrick Webb", Laurie Fitzpatrick, A & U1/96 "Punchinello In America", Laurie Fitzpatrick, Art & Understanding, 10/95
"Eros and Angst", Phillip Gambone, Bay Windows 7/29/93
"Punchinello Paintings, by Patrick Webb", Nancy Grimes, catalog essay,12/92
"Stonewalling", Thomas J. Jackson, New York Native, 2/93,6/95
"Finding Those Who Fall Before", Gambone , Bay Windows, 8/20/92
"Real Implications", Mary Verrill, New North Artscape, 2/90
"Coat of Many Colors", Mary Abbe, Star Tribune, Minneapolis., MN, 1/25/90
"...the subject is AIDS", Art South 5/89
"Alone and Embattled", Walter Wadas, Bay Windows, Boston , MA 12/86
"Painterly Realists", St. Louis Courier, St. Louis, MO,86
"Rhythms of New York and Promising Young Talent", C. Temin, Boston Globe, 6/23/83
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