Patrick Painter

Patrick Painter (born April 27, 1954, Long Beach, California), born Patrick Lee Painter is an Irish-American art dealer who runs Patrick Painter Inc., which is comprised of three galleries - two in Santa Monica's Bergamot Station and one on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles; he also owns Patrick Painter Editions.

Painter was mentored by art dealer Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps. [Ad vocem. Patrick Painter, July 2008.] In 1991, he began Patrick Painter Editions in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with his first edition (of three) being two prints by Roy Arden. The next year, he made editions for Richard Prince, Larry Johnson, and Jeff Wall, among others. Since its inception, Patrick Painter Editions has made small editions of works by John Baldessari, Mike Kelley, Ed Ruscha, Paul McCarthy, Anish Kapoor, Peter Doig, Richard Hawkins, Glenn Brown, Andrea Zittel, Christopher Wool, Collier Schorr, Harmonie Korine, Douglas Huebler, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Art & Language and John Miller to name a few. ["Patrick Painter Editions 1991 - 2005," Patrick Painter Editions (Hong Kong, Vancouver), 2006.] Though he established Patrick Painter Editions at a time when the art market was in very bad shape, he managed to build his business upon the success he had turning editions, which, by virtue of their name, were looked down upon at the time by many critics and collectors, into a new type of uniqueness. [John Jarasa, "The Art of Hustling," Heavy Hitters Magazine, Issue 3, May-June 2008, p. 72-85.] In 1996, 20 galleries worldwide had shows of exclusively Patrick Painter Editions. [received Ad Vocem, Patrick Painter, 27 August 2008.] In 1997, Painter opened Patrick Painter Inc., an art gallery, with the backing and support of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy] , while continuing to maintain his editions activities. [John Jarasa, "The Art of Hustling," Heavy Hitters Magazine, Issue 3, May-June 2008, p. 72-85.] He was married to Soo Jin Jeong on August 8, 2005, and today they live and work together in Los Angeles.

Patrick Painter Inc. represents and shows work by Georg Baselitz, Tim Berresheim, Simon Bill, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Liz Craft, Valie Export, Bernard Frize, Francesca Gabbiani, Salomón Huerta, Jörg Immendorff, Larry Johnson, Mike Kelley, Won Ju Lim, John Miller, John Newsom, Albert Oehlen, Philippe Pasqua, Peter Saul, Mattias Schaufler, Christoph Schmidberger, Jim Shaw, Melanie Smith, Meyer Vaisman, Marnie Weber, Toby Ziegler, and Thomas Zipp, as well as the estates of Bas Jan Ader, Francis Picabia, and Andy Warhol. [http://www.patrickpainter.com]

Notes and references

*"Patrick Painter Editions 1991 - 2005," Patrick Painter Editions (Hong Kong, Vancouver), 2006.
*John Jarasa, "The Art of Hustling," Heavy Hitters Magazine, Issue 3, May-June 2008, p. 72-85.

External links

* [http://www.patrickpainter.com Patrick Painter Online]