HONEY Exhibition opening is Thursday, March 15th from 6:oo-9:oo p.m. at the Greenville Museum of Art

Exhibition

HONEY is a dynamic, juried exhibition embodying and celebrating the role of the honeybee. In light of the international Colony Collapse Disorder crisis and global concerns over war, economic collapse and a worldwide food shortage, the fate of the honeybee mirrors the fate of humanity.  Philosopher Rudolf Steiner noted the bees as an indicator species in developing his ideas on biodynamic farming and caring for the earth. This call for entries seeks artwork related to these issues and honoring the majestic apis mellifera.

Artists whose work has been juried into the exhibition are: Heather Beck, Barbara Blaisdell, Aleta Braun, Ben Bridgers, Katy Cassell, Megan Clark, Kelly Jean Conroy, Laurie Corral, Desiree DeMars, Gina Dill, Christine Dougherty, Mary Early, Bob Ebendorf, Kristen Egan, Jane Wells Harrison, Sarah K. Hooper, Melissa Hronkin, June Jasen, Rachel Kauff, Joyce Watkins King, Timothy Lazure, Jenny Lynn McNutt, Jeff Millikan, Greg Patch, Betsy Peters, Christine Reising, Suzanne Sawyer, Pat Spainhour, Elizabeth Staiger, Melvin S. Stanforth, Rebecca Stirner, Isaac Talley, Lauren Thiele, and Robin Wise.

The exhibition dates are March 10 – April 8, 2012.
Exhibition opening is Thursday, March 15th from 6:00-9:oo p.m. at the Greenville Museum of Art

Our juror, Catherine Coulter Lloyd is the current Visual Arts Specialist at the Maria V. Howard Arts Center in Rocky Mount, NC. She has worked in arts administration for over ten years in a variety of capacities including curator, education director, collections manager, registrar, and preparator. Lloyd has served on the board of the North Carolina Museum Council as Government Affairs Chair and Directory Chair. She obtained a BFA from Western Carolina University and an MFA from East Carolina University with focuses in the area of ceramics, fiber, and photography.

For full details, please download and read the prospectus [PDF format].

"HONEY" at Greenville Art Museum

Am honored, grateful, and just a tad excited to have been selected by juror Catherine Coulter-Lloyd, Curator of the Maria V. Howard Arts Center to have "Webh Ground 1" be included in this group show running from March 15 - April 8 at the Greenville Art Museum in 

Greenville, NC. HONEY is Co-Hosted by East Carolina University and the Greenville Art Museum.

Webh Ground 1         Beeswax/Natural Pigments         16" x 24"

from the call for entry prospectus; "HONEY, "a dynamic, juried exhibition embodying and celebrating the role of the honeybee. In light of the international Colony Collapse Disorder crisis and global concerns over war, economic collapse and a worldwide food shortage, the fate of the honeybee mirrors the fate of humanity. Philosopher Rudolf Steiner noted the bees as an indicator species in developing his ideas on biodynamic farming and caring for the earth. This call for entries seeks artwork related to these issues and honoring the majestic apis mellifera."

For a clearer, more concise format of this 9 works series please vist my website 

gregpatchart:

http://bit.ly/xGcBw9

2 pt video I made on my creative process with this series of 9 works;

youtube video #1. http://bit.ly/eTEBet

youtube video #2. http://bit.ly/ylF23U

to access blog entries made, search "WebhGround Series" to your right. 

enThanks Honeybee.

WebhGround 10 & 11

WebhGround 10             7 1/2" x 9"           Beeswax, natural pigment on Papel de Amate y Khadi papers

WebhGround 11            7 1/2" x 9"           Beeswax, natural pigment on Papel de Amate y Khadi papers

Natural Selections 2.0 Group Show, Dakota State University

Margaret Withers, stealing entropy, 
2010, resin, pigment, oil, string, painted vellum, 24x24
© Margaret Withers

Am honored to have art work selected for the Natural Selections 2.0 "contemporary art meets nature" Group Show at Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota. The show will open Feb 1st, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM and run through April 1, 2011. There will be 21 artists represented from the US and 1 artist from Belgium.
Alan Montgomery and Destry Sparks have curated the show.

Karl E. Mundt Gallery at Dakota State University

820 N. Washingston St.
Madison, South Dakota 57042 

The artists:

Cathryn Peters,  Angora, MN

Greg Patch,  Surf City, NC

Milbert Whitley,  Pantego, NC

Joshua Coombs,  Philadelphia, PA

Jane Horner,  New Bern, NC

Pamela Zimmerman,  Washington, NC

Emily Soldin Howard,  Raleigh, NC

Joey Howard,  Raleigh, NC

Maxine Masterfield,  South Sarasota, FL

Meredith Loughlin,  Washington, NC

Neil Loughlin, Washington, NC

Betsy Stewart,  Washington, DC

Andrew Fullwood,  Chapel Hill, NC

Platon Alexis Hadjimichalis,  Brussels, Belgium

Jenny Hodges,  Wilmington, NC

Kiernan McGonnell,  Chicago, IL

Margaret Withers,  Brooklyn, NY

Peggy Guichu,  Phoenix, AZ

Destry Sparks,  Greenville, NC

WebhGround 9 / Part 1

WebhGround 9

WebhGround 9        16" x 24"       Beeswax & natural pigment on paper

my interview on S.L.A.M. emag by Terrie Lloyd (pics & video included!)

Check out my video on You Tube!

http://bit.ly/9kQvkY or S.L.A.M. emag http://artslammagazine.com/        

                                         

S.L.A.M. F.A.D. #98 Greg Patch – Celebrating Kratophany

by Terri

posted in Everything Art, Fan Art, Featured Artist of the Day, HEALTH, Interviews, Magazine, Painting, Self-Publish, Uncategorized, Videos

Webh Ground 3 © Greg Patch

S.L.A.M.: Greg, your work upon first viewing seems influenced by Eastern Philosophy. And yet when the viewer spends time with a piece or pieces, there is a much deeper process at work here. Would you share with SLAM viewers a little bit about your influences, background?
Greg Patch: You’re right. My work is influenced by Eastern Philosophy. The deeper context is I was raised, educated and have always lived in the US. My first semester at art school was School of Visual Arts in NYC. I was painting large canvas of semi realistic paper bags and the old dial black telephones. It was a short semester. That was the late 60’s; happenings, dropping out and turning on was the path I followed for the next 6 mos. in an illegal living communal warehouse on Greenwich St. SoHo didn’t exist then. The WTC was just being built. The next chapter of my happening lasted 5 – 6 yrs traveling the US.  Working, as a result of Nixon’s first draft lottery, resisting the draft to become labeled as un-trainable by the U.S. Army, as a manager at an organic juicery/food center in Tucson, AZ, a cowboy in Steamboat Springs, CO, a house painter, warehouser, office clerk, janitor, and a fine woodworker, etc. I returned to art school in the mid 70’s in Utica, NY. That was the MWP School of Art. Its’ short lived experimental curriculum was based on the Chicago Bauhaus and the Black Mountain School of the 30’s and 40’s. I finished my BFA/Painting at SUNY/New Paltz in 1980. The most repeated criticism I received at New Paltz was I focused on too many styles and influences. For the faculty that was a negative, I didn’t see it that way. lol I had the good fortune to apprentice with corten steel sculptor Willard Boepple at the Utica Boat Works and Bob Schuler in High Falls, NY on his Tethys Project. A short enroll with grad school ended with “why spend money that I don’t have access to on an environment I don’t want to be in”. I’ve worked/studied Traditional Medical Herbalism, Humanistic Astrology and co-operative living for 30 years. I was gifted with two co-created daughters at home, grown women now, a 1 year old home birth grandson and a great friend that I helped her Mom raise from 13 years old.

Chakra 2 Rising Wave © Greg Patch

S.L.A.M.: In reading about your (multiple) Chakra series there is a focus on the space between the various Chakras themselves. A place where the energy merges, or exchanges in or as waves. There is a Chinese term and pictogram, “hsiang sheng.” It’s a term reflecting the relationship between yin and yang, the mutual arising or inseparability. (It should be stated with respect to the idea that these are principles and not necessarily men or women.) 
Relationship and resonance are two words that come to mind here. Not just our relationships with each other but within ourselves individually as well as upon the earth or within nature at large and individually. Is this something you would like your audience to take away from your work?
Greg Patch: Yes it is. Embarking, and along the way to that recognition to enjoy the color/form/line/texture/surface and the vibrations received by our senses. It’s the journey, not a destination necessarily. I see everything as interrelated and that interrelation is what feeds me in waves like breakfast, lunch and dinner being seen as the rhythm, or structure, with liveliness in between. If there is one message it is all messages. What is within is without/what is without is within, the microcosm is the macrocosm / the macrocosm is the microcosm, the infinite negative is the infinite positive / the infinite positive is the infinite negative, darkness is lightness / lightness is darkness. When I can accept these realizations a balance, calmness, or nurturing occurs for me. By caretaking the wholey vessel of self/earth/universe we caretake all that is. You are one. We are one. Us is them. They are us. It is Western. it is Eastern. It is one. It’s a celebration.

Breaking White Wave © Greg Patch

S.L.A.M.: You’ve stated that “there is a quantum moment within a process when these merged perspectives (principles?) bring forth the world in its totality.” But this isn’t merely about what we see, is it? It’s also about your individual process as well, is it not? One is prompted to ask, where does Greg go when he’s in process?
Infinity is a pattern in your work. Not necessarily the symbol, but as maybe a current or energy and even in how manifests in what seems to be every day sorts of events, like your sports/basketball drawings. Would you speak to us about this?
Greg Patch: When I’m thinking consciously it could be design dialogue, or, “orange/blue feels good”, “where is that going!” or, “what’s for lunch?” I enjoy allowing the unconscious, or the collective unconscious, or dynamic self, or being in the now or whatever to speak. Later I/viewer may note a bird, or an African woman running along a path, trees and mountains will become waves or letters/symbols may emerge. The meaning may be it’s an African woman running or is it a release of a cellular memory. Where did our cultural symbols come from, where are they going? We can pull a stone from a stream and the letters HU are in the stone. No one wrote or etched it. It’s there, formed when the stone was liquid. Some call it a synchronistic experience. I look at as being aware of what is a great truth in our universe. It occurs constantly. We as humans have borrowed and reflect our symbols from the nature we live in, stones, clouds, the patterns of a flower or the surface of the seas and oceans. They are from our ancient mythologies, our personal life memories, our DNA, the Earth’s memory. We are nature-nature is us-we are nature-…, spiraling and stringing along as one. Infinity is fascinating! Infinity exists in and beyond the micro and the macro, at the point where yin and yang merge. That is a huge play/workground! It was amazing for me when I real eyesed what the basketball drawings were showing me. Try to envision all of our activities from that perspective! Why and what patterns do birds make when they migrate. An amusing curiosity for me for the past several years is the word nomad. We tend to take things, nature, words and symbols for granted. Where do they come from, how did/do they derive, who are we, where are we/they going? For me the answer to the question “how many dimensions are there?” is “a one that includes all.”

Basketball Double Helix 1 © Greg Patch

S.L.A.M.: There is a great word that you used on your blog, kratophany. It is the best word to describe your work and your words, your thoughts as reflected on the blog. You are perhaps a cartographer of kratophany, to wax a philosophical pun. Do you see us as a society that has lost the ability to recognize this kratophany in our world, our way of life? Are there any solutions to this state of being?
Greg Patch: Kratophany describes a sacred response to an occurrence, a place, or with self. A word describing the experience that is beyond words. The body/mind hums in response to the experience. For me everything that is can be a kratophany if we allow ourselves to be there. I’m not a religious person, per se, but attempt to accept and act on my being a sacred being. Even as my attempts sometimes prevent the experience. lol I try to be amused by the situation to ease my frustration with the human experience of it.
S.L.A.M.: There is an uncompromising value of yours when it comes to the products you use to generating your work. You use colorfast beeswax colors, Khadi paper, Lokta, and the like. Would you share with SLAM readers why this is important to the work, to you personally, and for other artists?
Greg Patch: I can’t speak for other artists, that’s their reality. I’m learning to be uncompromising within to assure I enjoy an aware quality in relationship with other. I was told, and heeded, in the early 80’s that my poor health condition was a result of the materials in my personal environment. Our environment is a mess whether we accept the idea of climate change or not. My early life was in a small college town in Maine. When I wasn’t in school or playing sports I was in the woods, in a lake, pond or stream, or sitting in a field eating wild strawberries. Water was clear without being treated to be and it was alive with whole nourishment. When we align to that process instead of making it happen then the process occurs and we find ourselves there. It is appearing as a species we have gone beyond our means environmentally, physically, economically, etc. We assumed the possibility our means would expand with our theories. We have bodies that don’t exist on theories of economics, religions, philosophies, etc. alone.
My latest works, the Webh/Ground series is my exploring the existence of a pattern and structure that we live within. Webh is the Proto Indo-European root word for web, weave and wave. We could call that structure what is that makes all things one. When that structure breaks destruction occurs. It doesn’t take a scientist to figure out our need to restructure. Physical, mental and spiritual infrastructures need to be mended as we realize our world as globally one. The medium I work is fragile. It challenges my and viewers concepts of permanence, value and loss. Realizing, accepting and acting upon that is essential to what I am portraying. The challenge for me/us is to reassure the fear held by self/others of that experience. That the we are the them, the they are the us can be a kratography we are experiencing. There’s an initial reaction to imbalance. It can be fear, freezing or retreating back to the old way, that on the way to the imbalance created the problem we face. That kind of reaction is atypically deadly. Healing imbalances show us stages of evolving toward balance/harmony. First comes recognizing and accepting, then understanding, then resolving. Brain scientists are publishing studies now that show lifestyle is an addictive behavior. We all have addictions. It’s sensible to me to imbibe in healing addictions. Its hard work and sometimes hopeless feeling. However, its apocalyptic and irresponsible to not prepare and support life for future generations. I’d like to practice at a brighter, more optimistic vision for them.

Infinity © Greg Patch

S.L.A.M.: You’ve stated on your blog that “we shouldn’t be… asking artists to make art about climate.” This is an interesting stance to take. Especially since many people are reacting about the environment in this exact manner– “There’s another disaster! Quick! React! Make a painting!” –rather than stepping back and looking deeper, maybe toward causation and participation in these exact things. Would you share with us your take on this?
Greg Patch: Lol, yeah, the old hot potato game combined with “should of”. That sounds to me like a treacherous slope downward, or sideways! I quoted that phrase because I feel that way. It doesn’t make sense to me to continue using the toxic materials that helped create the problem. We know that arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium, preservatives, fungicides, PCBs, petroleum products, acrylics, plastics, etc. kill living organisms, like humans. Why perpetuate the problem by masking them with beautiful artwork in the name of environmental awareness?

Webh Celebration © Greg Patch

S.L.A.M.: What can SLAM readers look forward to from you?
Greg Patch: Look for the completed WebhGrund 9 on my blog later in the week.
Continue in my learning and sharing the art of visual arts and healing. Am in the process of purchasing non toxic dry pigments, local beeswax and exploring the multi-dimensional. And continue doing healing work in progress. It’ll be transitional, isn’t it always!, so I’ll leave you with no major predictions.
S.L.A.M.: Where can readers go to find out more about you and your work?

www.gregpatch.blogspot.com

www.greenartstudio.com

WebhGround 8

                 Webh 8             17" x 24"       Greg Patch

Art Opening

                                                            Greg Patch


                 Beeswax & Natural Pigment Paintings


                                     Art Opening


                           Sound Art by David Key

                                                   September 23, 6:30 - 8:30, 2010


                                                                Sage Salon & Spa


                                          7110 Wrightsville Avenue, Wrightsville, NC


                                                                 through Oct 13, 2010

God is gravity and hurricanes are vortexes

Dear Earl,

Am not going to confront you with my meaningless dribble. If you need me call me in Dunn, NC. Am sure you or one of your alter egos have been here before. Nice little old southern town with a couple curious little churches of brick and domed central roofs. Perhaps their vortex appealed to you and you've left them standing all these years. Perhaps you just overlooked it. Hope to get some pics to post here of them. My logic board is blown so anyone reading this may have to wait and stayed tuned to see it.
Am very excited. Physicist Stephen Hawkin has just pronounced that God is gravity. Of course its complicated theory and I'm simply being my gravitationally blunt self. Am sure Stephen will be up to all the flutter from the Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Budhists (well maybe not {except for the reincarnation thing}), and Christians catch wind of his sorcery!. Perhaps peace is not that far away once the religious become aware of this very grave reality.
Many Blessings Stephen!
Thanks Earl...

pr and opening

Today I took a piece, WebhGround 3, into WILMA (Wilmington NC's magazine for women http://www.wilmaontheweb.com/) to be photoshot with other Wilmington area "green" products for their next issue focussing on  enviromental activities in our area.

and

While in town stopped at Sage Salon and Spa, http://sagespaandsalon.com/ and firmed up details with
co-owner Lauren Farraher. I'll be hanging a show of my work on Mon Aug 30th. We'll be having the opening Sept 23 and I'll give an Artist Talk the first week of Oct. Will be sure to post more on each of these.

WebhGround 6 & 7

WebhGround 6

Beeswax & Natural Pigment on Papel de Amate and Khadi papers

16" x 24"

2010

WebhGround 7
Beeswax & Natural Pigment on Papel de Amate and Khadi papers
16" x 24"
2010

Between technical challanges in my personal life and technical challanges with this particular piece itself it has taken me most of the summer to do WebhGround 7. Still, honing in on my technical challanges of the summer I neglected to post #6 on my blog. The previous 6 WebhGrounds were 20 - 30 hours each. Q. Where do these challanges come from!?  A. We invent them in our minds. Am I trying to find a way to charge more for my work? This won't work genius!
A real bargain for the interested. Will charge the same price as the others and subtitle it "Sale!!! 60% off manufacturers suggested list price!"
Want to write more on this, and will, or you can challange yourself and read more of my blog and the perspective I share with many.
WebhGround Series will appear in its current state publicly for the first time at my show at Sage Salon and Spa in Wrightsville Beach, NC on Sept 23, 6:30 - 8:30 pm with more of the Series and maybe even some other work...

WebhGround 6

WebhGround 6 progressing

Blue Orange > Gray with unworked Ground. a different approach on WebhGround Series