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Patrick MacLeod Ammann
Most likely to join a cult
As a local PNW photographer and environmentalist who grew up surrounded by nature on the peninsula, my relationship with the planet and the people around me has always influenced my artwork. Creating art has never just been about personal growth, but encouraging others to grow as well and learn about themselves and the world around them. I explore social, political, and environmental themes that impact my generation. I want to inspire change in the status quo for the improvement of the environment and our quality of life.
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Invisible Hand, 2023
Inkjet print in a ornate painted plaster frame
What stands out to me the most is your passion for environmental issues, and I cannot stress how much I respect and admire the way you incorporate environmental elements in your work. Focusing on land use could limit ways to make art and imagination but you successfully combat that every time. It seems that you also take many photographs of animals and you have the ability to make even stray animals beautiful. It is bold, too, that you are not afraid of manipulating colors in your prints. It is almost like you have swirled around a painting palette and found the most interesting colors to play with, even when it is gray and brown, you fix them to become captivating.
Patrick adds a modern, surreal twist to his artwork. His subjects usually include natural substances (e.g. plants, animals, etc.) with some form of distortion. Patrick is also concise and straight to the point with his artworks. With his use of sharpness, high contrast, and easily-distinguishable subjects, he establishes a sense of drive. Rightly so, as he is very passionate about environmental sustainability and education.
Patrick adds passion and purpose to exhibitions that he is a part of. He brings activism to the artistic space that establishes an addicting sharpness to the melting pot of artistic visions. It is refreshing interacting with someone of that calibre, and I wish him the best with his endeavours after undergrad.
Lily Gates
Dissociating in Commerce, 2022
Inkjet prints hung on string with clothespins on cardboard with Seattle newspaper mache
