Bio
Patrick Barrow, (born 1988,) crafts chaotic and meticulously detailed abstracts with ink and colored pencils. Positive and negative space compete for attention; dark, intricate figures contrasting with vivid swaths of color. Patrick draws together opposite extremes to synthesize novel mindscapes, envisioning strange, new realities.
Patrick's most imposing and accessible piece is a mural (Wholeness, 2016,) painted just before Meow Wolf opened The House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Wholeness interposes an obscure corner of the exhibit with otherworldly shapes and colors, enhanced by dynamic lighting. Immediately after The House of Eternal Return debuted, Patrick began work on his most ambitious project, a quadriptych entitled Opalescent Year, which he completed in 2025.
Artist’s Resume
2000: 1st place in a private show, independently juried, for his drawing of a Dogbane Beetle
2003: 3rd place (Group III) in the Massachusetts Junior Duck Stamp competition, for his drawing of a Barrow’s Goldeneye
2005: 1st prize in Dartmouth High School end-of-year art show, for his oil pastel still life
2009: Honorable Mention in the College of Santa Fe’s Annual Juried Student Exhibition And you thought we were dead!, for his graphite drawing of David Barnes’ multiple exposure photograph Species
2011: Exhibition at Alumni Hall at College of Santa Fe, series of work entitled Blooming, Buzzing Confusions
2012: Painted a mural with Kori Grayson for the Contemporary Music Program in Benildus Hall at College of Santa Fe
2012: Hosted Feasts of the Unconscious, a multimedia immersive house experience, exhibiting work from high school through college
2013: Featured in Knack Magazine, a piece entitled The Shapes of Wrath
2016: Group exhibition at David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, for Meow Wolf’s 8-year retrospective
2016: Painted a mural at Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return, entitled Wholeness
2018: Self-released debut solo album Pipe Dreams by Smoking Bullet featuring album art of pieces in the series Approaching Wholeness
2020: Featured in The End of Being, an arts and culture website curated by The Product Division of Santa Fe, with an illustrated article entitled The State of My Art in 2020
2023: Created cover art for The Flying Tortoise Orchestra’s LP The Wounds We Could Have Healed, a piece entitled No Baseline