Patrick Painter born Patrick Lee Painter is an Irish-American art dealer

Art dealer

An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art. Art dealers' professional associations serve to set high standards for accreditation or membership and to support art exhibitions and shows.-Role:...

 who runs Patrick Painter Inc., which consists of three galleries - two in Santa Monica

Santa Mônica

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's Bergamot Station

Bergamot Station

Bergamot Station is a facility housing many art galleries in Santa Monica, California, USA.-History:The name "Bergamot Station" dates back to 1875 when it was a stop and car storage area on the steam powered Los Angeles and Independence Railroad from Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles - as well...

 and one on Melrose Avenue

Melrose Avenue

Melrose Avenue is an internationally renowned shopping, dining and entertainment destination in Los Angeles that starts from Santa Monica Boulevard at the border between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood and ends at Lucille Avenue in Silver Lake...

 in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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; he also owns Patrick Painter Editions.

Painter was mentored by art dealer

Art dealer

An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art. Art dealers' professional associations serve to set high standards for accreditation or membership and to support art exhibitions and shows.-Role:...

 Leo Castelli

Leo Castelli

Leo Castelli was an American art dealer. He was best known to the public as an art dealer whose gallery showcased cutting edge Contemporary art for five decades...

 and Walter Hopps

Walter Hopps

Walter Hopps was an American museum director and curator of contemporary art. His obituary in the Washington Post described him as a "sort of a gonzo museum director -- elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules."Hopps was born in Eagle Rock, Los...

. In 1991, he began Patrick Painter Editions in Vancouver

Vancouver

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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, Canada

Canada

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, with his first edition (of three) being two prints by Roy Arden

Roy Arden

Roy Arden is a Vancouver artist.Arden has had solo exhibitions at the Ikon Gallery, Galerie Tanit and Vancouver Art Gallery. Other exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp . His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art - was featured in...

. The next year, he made editions for Richard Prince

Richard Prince

Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975...

, Larry Johnson

Larry Johnson

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, and Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall

Jeffrey "Jeff" Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s...

, among others. Since its inception, Patrick Painter Editions has made small editions of works by John Baldessari

John Baldessari

John Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...

, Mike Kelley, Ed Ruscha, Paul McCarthy

Paul McCarthy

Paul McCarthy , is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.-Life:McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and studied art at the University of Utah in 1969. He went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute receiving a BFA in painting...

, Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor CBE RA is a British sculptor of Indian birth. Born in Mumbai , Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice...

, Peter Doig

Peter Doig

Peter Doig is a contemporary artist born in Scotland. In 2007, a painting of Doig's, entitled White Canoe, sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist.-Early life:...

, Richard Hawkins

Richard Hawkins

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, Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown is an English artist. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000.-Working practice:Brown appropriates images created by living, working artists, such as Frank Auerbach and Howard Hodgkin, as well as images by artists more established in the historical canon, such as Rembrandt or...

, Andrea Zittel

Andrea Zittel

Andrea Zittel is an American practicing sculptor, installation artist, and Relational artist.-Early Life:Born in Escondido, California in 1965, Zittel graduated from San Pasqual High School in 1983...

, Christopher Wool

Christopher Wool

Christopher Wool is an American artist residing in New York City. Since the 1980s, Wool's studio practice has incorporated issues surrounding post-conceptual ideas - moving beyond theoretical readings...

, Collier Schorr

Collier Schorr

Collier Schorr is an American artist best known for her portraits of adolescent men and women, which often blend photographic realism with elements of fiction and youthful fantasy....

, Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine

The story is told from the perspective of a young man suffering from untreated schizophrenia, played by Ewen Bremner, as he tries to understand his deteriorating world. Julien's abusive father is played by Werner Herzog...

, Douglas Huebler

Douglas Huebler

Douglas Huebler was an American conceptual artist.-Life and career:Douglas Huebler grew up in rural Michigan during the Depression and served in the Marines in World War II...

, Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Félix González-Torres

Felix Gonzalez-Torres was an American, Cuban-born visual artist."For Felix it was much more powerful to assume that the gay and straight audience was the same audience, that being a Cuban-born American is the same as being an American. And being American was something he was extremely proud of."...

, Art & Language

Art & Language

Art & Language is a shifting collaboration among conceptual artists that has undergone many changes since its inception in the late 1960s. Their early work, as well as their journal Art-Language, first published in 1969, is regarded as an important influence on much conceptual art both in the...

 and John Miller

John Miller (artist)

John Miller was an English artist born in London who became famous for his idyllic representation of beach scenes in his home county of Cornwall. Most of his paintings were of the West Penwith peninsula and Tresco in the Isles of Scilly....

 to name a few. 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. In 1996, 20 galleries worldwide had shows of exclusively Patrick Painter Editions. In 1997, Painter opened Patrick Painter Inc., an art gallery, with the backing and support of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy

Paul McCarthy

Paul McCarthy , is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.-Life:McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and studied art at the University of Utah in 1969. He went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute receiving a BFA in painting...

, while continuing to maintain his editions activities. 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

Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany...

, Tim Berresheim

Tim Berresheim

Tim Berresheim is a contemporary German visual artist who lives and works in Cologne. He studied at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Braunschweig from 1998 to 2000 and the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf from 2000-2000....

, Simon Bill

Simon Bill

Simon Bill is a contemporary British visual artist who lives and works in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom. He studied art at the St. Martin's School of Art in London from 1977–1980 and at The Royal College of Art, also in London, from 1982-1985...

, Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown is an English artist. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000.-Working practice:Brown appropriates images created by living, working artists, such as Frank Auerbach and Howard Hodgkin, as well as images by artists more established in the historical canon, such as Rembrandt or...

, André Butzer

André Butzer

-Biography:Butzer was born in Stuttgart, Germany and lives in Rangsdorf near Berlin. He makes semi-abstract paintings that feature cartoon-like characters and objects. Butzer is interested in the comic genre, whose ambivalence comes on the one hand from a childlike inflation of effect and on the...

, Liz Craft, Valie Export

Valie Export

Valie Export is an Austrian artist...

, Bernard Frize

Bernard Frize

Bernard Frize is a French painter who works in a variety of materials and utilizes a multitude of techniques. As an artist he explores the bare minimal essence of painting, devoid of conception and aesthetic, instead focusing on an industrial approach to making art...

, Francesca Gabbiani, Salomón Huerta

Salomón huerta

Salomón Huerta is a painter based in Los Angeles, California who comes from Tijuana, Mexico and grew up in the Boyle Heights Projects in East Los Angeles. Salomón Huerta received a full scholarship to attend the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and completed is MFA at UCLA in 1998...

, Jörg Immendorff

Jörg Immendorff

Jörg Immendorff was one of the best known contemporary German painters; he was also a sculptor, stage designer and art professor.- Life and work :...

, Larry Johnson

Larry Johnson

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, Mike Kelley

Mike Kelley

Mike Kelley is a contemporary American artist. Kelley's work involves found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance and video. He often works collaboratively and has done projects with artists Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler and John Miller...

, Won Ju Lim, John Miller

John Miller (artist)

John Miller was an English artist born in London who became famous for his idyllic representation of beach scenes in his home county of Cornwall. Most of his paintings were of the West Penwith peninsula and Tresco in the Isles of Scilly....

, John Newsom, Albert Oehlen

Albert Oehlen

Albert Oehlen is a contemporary German artist. He graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, in 1978. Closely associated with the Cologne art scene, he was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge, along with Martin Kippenberger among others...

, Philippe Pasqua, Peter Saul

Peter Saul

PETER SAUL is an American painter. His work has connections with Pop Art, Surrealism,and Expressionism. His early use of pop culture cartoon references in the late 1950s and very early 1960s situates him as one of the few fathers of the Pop Art movement...

, Mattias Schaufler, Christoph Schmidberger

Christoph Schmidberger

Christoph Schmidberger is a painter based in Los Angeles. He studied from 1989-1994 at the Higher Technical College of Graphic Art in Graz, Austria, and graduated with an Honours and Master of Art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2002.His works, drawn or painted in a hyperreal style,...

, Jim Shaw

Jim Shaw (artist)

Jim Shaw is a contemporary American artist, born in Midland, MI, and who now lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his B.F.A. from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1974 and his M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts, in 1978. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA He is married to...

, Melanie Smith

Melanie Smith

Melanie Smith is an American actress. She is the youngest of six children raised in a working class family...

, Meyer Vaisman, Marnie Weber

Marnie Weber

Marnie Weber is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work includes photography, sculpture, installations, film, video, and performances. She is also a musician.-Life and work:...

, Toby Ziegler

Toby Ziegler

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, and Thomas Zipp

Thomas Zipp

Thomas Zipp is an artist based in Berlin.Zipp studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt and the Slade School, London from 1992-1998....

, as well as the estates of Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader was a Dutch conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker. He lived in Los Angeles for the last 10 years of his life. Ader's work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances...

, Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements.- Early life :...

, and Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...

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External links

• Patrick Painter Online