PATRICK KRAMER
“Lost and Found”
Patrick Kramer was born in 1981 in Kaysville, Utah, the by nature, representational art was an outlet well suited Young University, receiving a BFA in 2008. Patrick is famous works along with elements of destruction. He or opposition, order versus chaos, variety versus unity, deconstructed masterpieces while making a piece for a has destroyed his fair share of artworks when By illustrating the destruction of masterful works of Kramer’s series communicates the inherit frustration of depictions of scraped imagery. Now the work has evolved shattering, and cracking. Images in mid-termination takes another layer of narrative Momento Mori, or the idea that death looms over everything theme in Kramer’s paintings as well. From Frida Kahlo Kramer’s decimation.
“I like the polarity and juxtaposition of these images, but have an edge to them,” Kramer says. “There can American Art Collector, Artists and Illustrators Magazine two sons in
the youngest child of German immigrants. A perfectionist suited to his personality. He studied painting at Brigham is interested in art history and frequently incorporates finds himself drawn to imagery with a certain tension unity, grace versus grit. Kramer came up with his series of a group show with the theme of perfectionism. Kramer when he has been unsatisfied with the result. of art as if it were done by the creators themselves, of the creative process. Initially the series started with evolved into various methods of ruin such as burning, takes paintings in their already delicate states and adds and chaos for the viewer.
everything and nothing is permanent, is an underlying Kahlo to Van Gogh, no historical piece of art is spared in decimation.
but it’s also grace and grit—things that are beautiful be beauty in ugliness.” His work has been featured in Magazine and Southwest Art. Patrick lives with his wife and Orem, Utah
