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Andy Patton

Andy Patton is a painter who lives in Toronto with his wife, the artist Janice Gurney. He represented Canada in the Fifth Biennale of Sydney. In 2014, his text paintings were included in "The Transformation of Canadian Landscape Art" exhibition in Xi’an, which later traveled to Beijing. His recent book, "Little Testament," was published in 2017 by Blue Medium Press. With the poets, Roo Borson and Kim Maltman, Patton was part of the poetry collaboration, Pain Not Bread; together they wrote Introduction to the Introduction to "Wang Wei" which was published by Brick Books in 2000. Patton is represented by Birch Contemporary.

Artists in Isolation Series, Features• May 13, 2020

Artists in Isolation: Day’s End

By Andy Patton

“I had no faith in any kind of permission.” So he cut off the lock and replaced it with his own, then went to…

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Features, Reviews• April 6, 2020

The Invention of the Humane: Ken Lum’s Collected Writings

By Andy Patton

I was planning to attend the Art Metropole launch of Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, Ken Lum’s book of his selected…

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Reviews• January 8, 2020

The Art We Deserve: Luc Tuymans’s Exhausted Image

By Andy Patton

After days of historic high water and watching Venice’s warren of shops and restaurants struggle to survive, it was a relief to enter the…

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Features• August 20, 2019

Notes on a Crisis in Beauty

By Andy Patton

1. “I do not mourn for what I have lost. For if there is one new art that we have had to learn, those…

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Features, Reviews• November 27, 2018

A Frieze in Rome: William Kentridge Updates Augustus, Tangling Time

By Andy Patton

“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” It sounds like good advice, but Romans seem largely to ignore William Kentridge’s Triumphs and Laments,…

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Features• June 15, 2018

The Manner of Their Dying

By Andy Patton

I think of them often. I knew Felix best. Jorge I never knew well. I feared and admired AA’s bite and sophistication. But I…

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Reviews• March 7, 2016

Emergence and Ruin in Carol Wainio

By Andy Patton

Carol Wainio is a wonderful and troubling painter. For decades, a constant inventiveness in the ways of handling paint, of creating figures and spaces, has…

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