About
Patrick Halm is an artist working primarily in experimental film. His work has been featured in galleries and festivals in England, Germany, Canada, Spain and throughout the U.S. He had his first solo show in 1999 at The Blinding Light Gallery Theater in Vancouver, BC. Canada. Selected 16mm film and videp works are distributed through Canyon Cinema in San Francisco CA. In 2013 he published a book of selected drawings LINE MYTH ECHO. He has been practicing art in Los Angeles for 30 years. He received a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School Of Design.
EXHIBITION
Galeria Cortabitarte, Soria, Spain. Group Show.
Times Quotidian Interview, with Guy Zimmerman. Read Interview.
The Tinlark, Los Angeles, CA. Group Show.
Filmforum at the Egyptian, Los Angeles, CA. One Person Show.
Newspace, Portland, OR. Group Show.
Barnsdale Art Center, Los Angeles, CA. Group Show.
Hanover Film Festival, Hanover, Germany. Group Show.
Bremen Film Festival, Bremen, Germany. Group Show.
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI Group Show.
21 Grand, Oakland, CA Group Show, curator Sarah Lockhart.
Telluride Experimental Film Exhibition, Group Show.
Exploding Cinema, London England, Group Show.
ATA San Francisco, CA. Group Show curator Sarah Lockhart.
The Blinding Light Cinema Vancouver, BC. One person show.
911 Media Arts Center Seattle, WA. Group show curator Peter Mitchell.
Gallery 207 West Hollywood, CA. One person show.
Beyond Baroque Venice, CA. Two person show.
Spanish Kitchen Los Angeles, CA. Two person show.
Filmfourm Los Angeles, CA. Group show curators Erik Deutschman and Relah Eckstein.
Filmfourm Los Angeles, CA. Group show. curator Jon Stout.
Experimental Film Coalition. Chicago, IL. Group show curator John Schofill.
Newport Film Festival. Newport, RI. Group show curator David Korb.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Artists are thinkers. Film for me has always been a gateway to thought, a transport where image and idea can reveal an invisible path concealed within memory, moment, and motion. I attempt to create an experience that points the way through that gateway. Above all, my work is intended to create an object or space that allows the viewer to exercise their individual thought process; to dislodge, unlearn, find freedom and ultimately gain access to the creative self.
Much of my work is built around a fascination with symbols and an interest in observational cinematography. The symbols act, for me, as an omphalos from which a piece can generate. I look to the life of this center to give way to willful observation, collective memory, and the poetry of ideas. From this point the experience is created from what is innate, what is learned, and what is genuine. I use image play, layered with contrast, conflict, and visual slant rhyme to casts a genre neutral spell while a transmuted refrain whispers temporal logic. I search for order created from gravity, light and time, allowing an unbridled linear structure to yield its dialect to poetic caprice and mythic cadence. My aim is to infuse the unknowable invisible presence onto the mind and awaken epiphany and empathy via the creative self; thus allowing escape (if be it momentary) from the cotemporary morass, and then entrance into an uncompromised space to think.
Thought is freedom.
Patrick Halm 2019
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