Patrick G Barrow
Artworks
A series of abstract, ink and colored pencil drawings created from 2011 to the present. The style, dubbed “Cartographunk” by frequent collaborator Cody Snyder, has similarities to mapmaking and freeform coloring books. The series of work I created in this style is called Blooming, Buzzing Confusions, after William James. He described the chaotic, nonsensical, multisensory experience of a newborn baby. I see these pieces as a kind of “chronocrystallography”—capturing a cross section of multi-dimensional reality and highlighting every detail.
Artist’s Statement
My art is a recurring attempt to throw light on the unspoken and the unspeakable. I try to bring together contradicting extremes within myself and make a new wholeness. I am meeting myself and cultivating ever stronger strains of sanity with which to meet the world. In my view, we have everything to gain from calming our bodies and our minds and opening our senses to the naked realities of nature.
About
Patrick Barrow is a mixed-media artist based in Santa Fe, NM. Born in South Dartmouth, MA, he spent much of his childhood drawing in the studio with his mother, children’s book illustrator and portraitist Ann Barrow. He moved to New Mexico in 2007 to attend the College of Santa Fe, majoring in Contemporary Music and minoring in Studio Art. Some of his favorite art instructors have included Susan Cabral, Julie Catron, Robert Sorrel, and Linda Swanson. Patrick now works and lives in downtown Santa Fe with his wife and daughter.