The Painted Theatre Project (PTP), Patrick Duegaw’s current body of work, which includes The Innumerable Anxieties, and the on-going Creation, Preservation, and Destruction series, reinterprets both painting and the basic rules of dramatic construction. These Productions combine installation, painting and theatre, where, in place of thespians, objects, and a stage, it instead features a painted cast, props, and sets. The action that takes place is rendered to imply movement, rather than actually performed, and the dialog is written rather than spoken.
Study for The Unbearably Tall Ladder (or) Portrait of Eric (Foreground Figure)
2018 / Graphite on cotton paperStudy for The Unbearably Tall Ladder (or) Portrait of Eric
2009 / Ink and gesso on Paper / 56.5 x 18.5 inchesStudy for Torin with Mounted Antlers (or) Immortality Granted (background figure)
2015 / Graphite on paperStudy for Torin with Mounted Antlers (or) Immortality Granted (foreground figure)
2015 / Graphite on paperStudy For An Unreasonable Couch (or) Portraits of John and George (foreground figures)
2014 / Graphite on paper