Richard Patterson

Start date: Friday, February 20, 2009
Event is ongoing: Until Thursday, April 30, 2009

This second solo exhibition in Dallas by Richard Patterson (the first at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2000) will include important paintings, sculpture and prints from the last twelve years. Patterson is well known for paintings that embody notions of desire and despair. Psychologically charged and larger than life, they transform everyday American and British pop culture images from TV, film and advertising and infuse them with heroic proportions. Centerpieces of the exhibition include The Kennington Years (2002), which portrays Dustin Hoffman as the down-and-out character Ratso Rizzo and Jon Voight as naïve Joe Buck in John Schlesinger’s 1969 classic film Midnight Cowboy, as well as Exile on Jackson Street (2003), which features an ex-Dallas Cowboy cheerleader, now a prominent art collector and philanthropist, posing in full-blown cheerleader regalia. Also exhibited will be paintings from the Spice Girls series from 1997 and a humorous self-portrait from 1998.