Patrick Duegaw

Patrick Duegaw’s current body of work is an on-going documentary; part installation, part theater production, where, in place of thespians, objects, and a stage, it instead features a painted cast, props, and set. These static-theater productions have grown out of his wide range of experiences from the construction site to the stage, and as an artist in his studios at Fisch Haus and in Montréal. The most recent ‘performance’ of The Painted Theatre Project introduces The Builder, a peripheral Fifth Business character who has created a multi-faceted environment, and subsequent story, with a series of specific tools.  The piece donated is a study for a painting that will ultimately play a part in his next production.

Patrick Duegaw (b. 1966) received a degree in Architecture at Kansas State University in 1989. He co-founded Fisch Haus in 1990, a Wichita-based arts organization which will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year with a major exhibition at the Ulrich Museum of Art. Duegaw’s last solo exhibition, which featured 111 paintings and drawings, was held at the Wichita Art Museum in 2009. His next one-man museum exhibition is slated for the fall of 2011, at The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. A recipient of the 2006 Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship in 2-D, Duegaw has shown extensively both regionally and nationally, and his work has been featured in Art In America, the Smithsonian Portrait of an Artist project, Review Magazine and New American Paintings.

See Patrick’s latest work, including ‘Jake With Scissors’:

April 2-June 19 2010
Paintings. Drawings. Text.
Patrick Duegaw

This ‘performance’ visually dramatizes, through two disparate yet overlapping narratives, the wide spectrum of human foible.

April 2-June 19 2010
The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
2012 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64108-1914
leedy-voulkos.com