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Pat Place

Born in Chicago in 1953; Lives and works in New York City

Education

Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, BFA

Solo Exhibitions

2014
Pat Place: Skies 2008-2014, 33 Orchard, New York

2008
Pat Place: The End, 1981 - Infinity, Jane Kim / Thrust Projects, New York

Group Exhibitions

2013
No Wave Salon Exhibition, AI Earthling Gallery, Woodstock, New York

2012
Open for the Stones, Vol. 2, Harper’s Bookstore, East Hampton, New York
1st Annual Holiday Salon Exhibition, ILLE Arts, Amagansett, New York
The Family Show, ILLE Arts, Amagansett, New York

2011
Open For The Stones, Vol. 1, Julie Keyes Art Projects, New York

2010
Who are you close to, Jane Kim / Thrust Projects, New York

2008
Happy Vacation, Jane Kim / Thrust Projects, New York
No Wave, Post Punk, Underground New York 1976-80, KS Art, New York

 

Lead Guitarist and co-founder of The Contortions, and founding member
of The Bush Tetras

Singles and EPs
1996            Page 18, The Bush Tetras, Tim/Kerr Records
1982            Rituals, The Bush Tetras, Stiff Records
1981            Things That Go Boom in the Night, The Bush Tetras, Fetish Records
1980            Too Many Creeps, The Bush Tetras 99 Records

Albums
2010             Happy, The Bush Tetras, ROIR Records
2007            Very Very Happy, The Bush Tetras, ROIR Records
1997            Beauty Lies, The Bush Tetras, Polygram Records
1996            Tetrafied: Previously Released Recordings, The Bush Tetras, Thirsty Ear Records
1995            Boom In The Night, The Bush Tetras, ROIR Records
1981            White Cannibal, Live In New York, The Contortions, ROIR Records
1979            Buy, The Contortions, ZE Records
1979             No New York, The Contortions, Antilles Records

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Jane Kim and 33 Orchard are pleased to present Skies: 2008-2014, an exhibition of recent work by Pat Place. The opening reception is Friday, March 28th from 6 to 8 pm and the show will be on view until May 4, 2014. Place’s body of work is comprised of groupings from a personal archive of thousands of iPhone photographs of the sky. The colored lines of both the clouds and sky are used in the same manner as expressionist brushstrokes, creating flow and movement within the grid-like patterns of the work. Themes of impermanence and time within the pieces are made visible, while the compositions echo the sky’s constant change.

Pat Place primarily known for her contributions to music and the New York No Wave scene, graduated from Northern Illinois University, IL with a BFA in Painting & Sculpture. Place moved to New York in 1975 and was a founding member and guitarist of The Contortions and Bush Tetras, whom she continues to tour with. Place has been showing her visual art in New York galleries since 1977. 

Place’s work has been included in recent group exhibitions at AI Earthling Gallery, Woodstock, New York (2013), Harper’s Bookstore, East Hampton, New York (2012), Julie Keyes Art Projects, New York (2011), and ILLE Arts, Amagansett, New York (2012). Her last one-person exhibition of photographs “The End, 1981 - Infinity” (2008) was at Jane Kim/Thrust Projects, NY. Place, who was born in Chicago in 1953, currently resides in New York and continues to work on her art and music.

For further information about and images on Pat Place, please contact 347.278.1500 or office@33orchard.com. Gallery hours are Wed to Sun from 11 AM – 6 PM.