‘Parallel to my practice of drawing, my sculptures represent a search for forms and images that I have never seen, which are the result of gestures, erasures, repetitions, superpositions and observations of unforeseen effects. All traces of this quest interest me. I try to leave them apparent once the work is finished.’
‘Parallel to my practice of drawing, my sculptures represent a search for forms and images that I have never seen, which are the result of gestures, erasures, repetitions, superpositions and observations of unforeseen effects. All traces of this quest interest me. I try to leave them apparent once the work is finished.’
Originally from Detroit, Patrick Loughran graduated from Columbia University, New York City, with degrees in Political Science and Fine Arts. After teaching ceramics at art schools in New York, Chicago, and New Mexico, he moved to France in 1991, where he currently lives and works. His clay sculptures are assembled using a logic of mechanical improvisation, informed by the natural biological and geological laws governing growth and development. His objects represent a quest for unseen forms and images.
Loughran views ceramics as a synthesis of various expressive modes, merging painting and sculpture, with color playing a significant role. His most recent work explores an almost unconscious concept of simultaneously uniting rigid and soft structures: a kind of erotic architecture.
His work is held in several museum collections, including the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Le Musée Magnelli, Musée de la Céramique, Vallauris; Le Musée de la Céramique Française; and the Fule International Ceramic Museums, China.
Patrick Loughran lives and works in Paris.
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