About this Event
On Thursday, April 23, we welcome Christian Patterson to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Patterson will be speaking about his latest work Gong Co., a twenty-year “monumental memento mori to the decline and decay of a small, family-owned grocery store in the heart of the Mississippi Delta” including photographs, still lifes, monoprints, collages, and readymade objects. The work considers “going out of business” as an existential metaphor, as impermanence and loss, relating one store not just to American culture and commerce in general, but also to the individual, at a time of great cultural reckoning, economic uncertainty, political upheaval, social unease, and loss. A limited number of Patterson’s rare, out-of-print books will be available for sale.
Join us on select Thursday evenings at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 25 Dederick Street in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served.
“Meet the Artist” is made possible by generous grants from the Arnold & Augusta Newman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Christian Patterson is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, books, and installations that include archival ephemera, drawings, hand-painted signs, monoprints, readymades, sound, and video. His work has been described as novelistic, subjective documentary of the historical past, and its themes touch on the archive, authorship, memory, place, and time. His books include Sound Affects (2008), Redheaded Peckerwood (2011), Bottom of the Lake (2015), and Gong Co. (2024). He’s a Guggenheim Fellow (2013), winner of the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2015), a New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellow (2022), James Castle House resident (2023), and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee (2025). His work and artist books are in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, National Gallery of Art, and Ogden Museum of Southern Art among others. He was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and lives in New York City.
Images © Christian Patterson.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
25 Dederick St, 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, United States
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