JPW3
Born 1981, Tallahassee, FL. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

EDUCATION

2012 M.F.A., Roski School of Fine Arts, U. of Southern California, Los Angeles
2005 B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL 2001-2002 Keystone College, LaPlume, PA

SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS

2020
Solo presentation with Night Gallery at UNTITLED, ART Fair, San Francisco, CA Zen Jail, Sarasota Art Museum at Ringling College, Sarasota, FL

2019
The Sun is Square, Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, MO Ringz, M. Le Blanc Gallery, Chicago, IL

2018
Decomposition on Hold (with Anna Fasshauer), STUDIO Istanbul at Artfactory, Istanbul, Turkey change is death, Martos Gallery, New York, NY

2017
Figure Ascending a Return, Martos Gallery, New York, NY Rarri Garden, Kunstverein Heppenheim, Germany CURSIIING, FUCKIIING, TIIMIIIIIING, DRIINKING, TEXTIIIING, DRIIVIIIING, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany Drifting the Bog, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016
Sleep Never Rusts, MOCA Tucson, Tucson, AZ

2015
Fry Guy, with Davida Nemeroff, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, CanadaCome inside your mind, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany Art Basel Discoveries, presentation with Night Gallery, Hong Kong I drive and I think and I look but I don’t know. Lanquidity, Martos Gallery, New York, NY

2014
32 Leaves, I Don’t The Face of Smoke, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Subterraneans, solo presentation with Night Gallery at Art Berlin Contemporary (abc), Berlin, Germany Solid Single Burner, Michael Jon Gallery, Miami, FL

2013
Z2, with Sayre Gomez, Samuel Freeman Gallery Los Angeles, CA SumpPump, with Ryan Foerster, David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2012
Garage of Forgotten Dreams, with Pop’s Secret, featuring Mantra for a Wall, a Floor and a Bug, MFA thesis show, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2011
ZYZZX, with Sayre Gomez, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2010
My First 69, Collaboration with Natalie Labriola, Monument 2, Chicago, IL Dirty Zen Zone (Get Fucked In the Mind), USC Ultra Lab Anechoic Chamber, Los Angeles, CA

2007
Ultra Trad Lands, Elk Gallery, New York, NY

2006
Endo Gainer, Booster and Seven, Chicago, IL !TransCraft, (Busters Magazine and Trading Post), Roots and Culture Contemporary Arts Center, Chicago, IL

2005
Gala, Art Ledge, Chicago, IL

2003
Destination Zero, Everheart Museum, Scranton,

PAPERFORMANCES

2014
The Subterraneans, abc Berlin, Germany

2013
Hot Pot Charmer Day #3, Move In Again performance series, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA

2012
XY NOT, with Jory Rabinovitz & NGUZUNGUZU, NADA MIAMI BEACH Blasting Voice, The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY

2011
Friend #00 at the BadCave, with ACTION BUREAU, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA FLOAT, Socrates Sculpture Park performance series curated by Cleopatra’s, Queens, New York Field of Dreams, curated by Cleopatra’s, Re-Institute Millerton, New York Friend 00, USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2009
Arab Drift / Tuned Endo P.S.1 Queens New York Wet Ropes, ABCyz at the Silvershed, New York City

2008
The Leaning Room, Yale University New Haven CT Listen!, Dennison Hill Middletown New York !2276 E. 16th Street, Los Angeles,California, 90021 nightgallery.caSmoking Boots, Secret Whistler, D'Amelio Terras New York SpotLight Murders, Bruceiennile Bruce High Quality Brooklyn

2007
Spotlight Murders Vs. Creative Time Club 205: 205 Christy St. New York Spotlight Murders Society for Contemporary Art, W Hotel, Chicago, ILRESIDENCIES

2008-2009
Visiting Scholar, New York University, New York, NY

2006
Contemporary Artists Center North Adams, MA


Source: Website of Night Gallery, 2020

“My materials are an excess of fuel,” says J. Patrick Walsh, the artist otherwise known as JPW3. “Yet from these materials new meanings form as I use them in experiments continuously relating found, fabricated, and raw elements.”

Working in two and three dimensions, JPW3 enacts alchemical transformations that turn thriftstore finds and common objects into art-making mediums. He casts sculptures from melted candles, for instance, using ramps and wheels as the molds, and makes transfer prints from newsprint onto canvas (again activated by hot wax).

Walsh has also recently turned to performance, acting on his same material fascinations; in Hot Pot Charmer, he crafted a large tangle of chain and rope, which he periodically lowered from the rafters into a steel pail of molten wax.

Text by Artsy.net