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Joe Patterson
Joe Patterson
he/him
Primary Medium: Painting | Pintura
About the Artist
Joe Patterson was born before the end of the Second World War in a little town in New Mexico called Hot Springs. Shortly thereafter, the town changed its name to Truth or Consequences. He has always considered this an omen that he should keep in mind. Joe arrived in Tucson, only a week old and watched this town grow for 80 years. The Vietnam War interrupted his graduate studies in psychology and took him to Louisiana for two years as Personnel Psychologist in the Armed Forces Entrance and Examination Station. Joe returned to Tucson, completed his doctorate and then he founded Desert Survivors, a not-for-profit human support organization based on desert surviving landscape horticulture. Joe then traveled the country consulting to developmental disabilities organizations as part of the Deinstitutionalization Movement. These, and many related experiences, gave him the "parallax perspective" that is expressed in his art and summarized in the phrase, "What you see depends on your point of view." Joe has been painting on and off his whole life. As a young man he took lessons with local artists including Gail Marcus Orlen. After retiring from his work as a Psychologist Joe has immersed himself in oil painting.How to Purchase
Visitor can purchase art via Venmo, Zelle and personal check.Pricing Range
$1001+, $151 - $500, $501 - $1000About this Tour
Joe Patterson of Parallax Art Tucson will be displaying his unique oil paintings inspired by the”parallax perspective” that is expressed in his art and summarized in the phrase, “What you see depends on your point of view.” This display will include paintings from his most recent art opening at Tap and Bottle Downtown on May 15, 2024 titled “Southwest Soliloquies.” What is exciting about this open studio tour is that visitors will have the first look at some of Joe’s newest work from his collection titled “The Attic of Memory.”
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About the Studio
Parallax Art Tucson
657 S Meyer Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701, USA
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City of Tucson Ward: Ward 1
Pima County District: District 2
About the Art
About the Process
I'm Joe Patterson and my medium is oil paint on canvas and my favorite tools of course are paint, oil paint brushes and all of the things that go with it. My hometown obviously influences my work. I love Tucson and I'm a native, living here most of my life and I just turned 80 a little while ago. My inspiration comes from the people I know, the places I've been and the adventures I've had with those people in those places. My body of work expanded recently starting off with 12 portraits of "Women Who Make Tucson a Better Place" and we were able to show them at Tap and Bottle Downtown in August 2022. I then did a lot of things out of random contact with things like my brother's experiences in Vietnam and my experiences traveling as a child. More recently my work has been about the southwest, and a lot of it about wine country and our culture of tequila, mescal and bacanora. My work workspace essentials are I need to have good light, all my oil paints, surfaces to spread out and places to hang my work. I am not too picky about that. My latest creation and the ones that are in process right now, "The Attic of Memory" comes from going through a few thousand old 35 millimeter slides from the 1950's to the present. As I went through them I saw slides and pictures of people and places that led me to want to paint them so now I've got one large painting of a man trout fishing in the Selway River where we used to go as a child.Explore Nearby Studios
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