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 paperTwo Rooms with Insufficient Light (or) Portraits of Kent and Mel
2007 / acrylic, ink, screws, and polyurethane on wallboard with aluminum frame / Diptych 60 x 114 inches (60 x 48 inches, 60 x 60 inches)Heroine (or) Rocket Ship
2005 / acrylic, ink, screws, and polyurethane on wallboard with wood frame / 91 x 49 inchesHit Man (or) Jurgen With Absent Microphone
2009 / acrylic, ink, screws, and polyurethane on wallboard with aluminum frame / 84 x 54 inchesSwimming Through Interiors (or) Portrait of Elizabeth
2004 / acrylic, ink, screws, and polyurethane on wallboard with painted wood frame / 46 x 79 inchesMaha with Floatation Device (or) She Floats in…She Floats Out
2006 / acrylic, ink, screws, and polyurethane on wallboard with aluminum frame / 35 x 35 inchesThe Builder, Removed
2008 / acrylic, ink, screws, and polyurethane on wallboard with aluminum frame / 23.5 x 16 inchesGeorge, Post Op (or) The Proper Way to Knot a Bow Tie
2013 / acrylic, ink, screws, and polyurethane on wallboard with aluminum frame / 42 x 36 inchesElmo ‘Buck’ Davis with Hour (Wine) Glass (or) Pretty Good So Far
2006 / acrylic, ink, screws, and polyurethane on wallboard with aluminum frame / 28 x 21 inchesStudy for The Unbearably Tall Ladder (or) Portrait of Eric
2009 / Ink and gesso on Paper / 56.5 x 18.5 inchesAmy with Butter Knife (or) Dreaming of Open Washers and Empty Dryers
2006 / acrylic, ink, screws, and polyurethane on wallboard with aluminum frame / 36 x 32 inchesJake with Open Scissors (or) My Mother Would Always Make Me Go to Vienna
2010 / acrylic, ink, screws, and polyurethane on wallboard with aluminum frame / 54 x 30 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