distemper and oil on linen,
213.5 x 152.5 cm
distemper and oil on linen on panel,
wood frame, 76 x 58 cm
distemper on linen on panel,
painted wood frame, 42 x 32 cm
distemper and oil on linen, 243.5 x 194 cm
egg tempera and oil on panel, 41 x 51 cm
distemper on linen, 244 x 183 cm
distemper on canvas, 228.5 x 96.5 cm
distemper on canvas, 228.5 x 165 cm
tempera on wood, 30 x 46 cm
tempera on wood, 30 x 46 cm
gouache on paper, 61 x 91 cm
tempera on wood, 45 x 41 cm
charcoal, watercolour, pencil, oil on linen, 171 x 168 cm
tempera on panel, 25 x 52 cm
tempera on panel, 40 x 30 cm
tempera on panel, 43 x 33 cm
tempera on panel,
61 x 53 cm
marker on panel, 53 x 48 cm
tempera on panel, 34 x 47 cm
tempera on panel, 41 x 44 cm
tempera on panel, 39 x 36 cm
Patrick Howlett
Patrick Howlett’s enigmatic paintings investigate the indeterminate nature of meaning in abstraction. His works are derived from a long process of transformations of images and text, a strategy that obfuscates a certain position of meaning while elaborating another.
“ The possible relation of title to image is an indeterminate one that plays one role in the creation my work and another in the experience of it. In some ways I use it as a cornerstone, in other ways it is a guide and a link and in another way it is meaningless. Having a title might create awareness of the gap between meaning and thing or intellect and intuition while at the same time create connections. If there is a strain, perhaps it can function as an antidote to the abstraction that takes place through language all the time. ”
— Patrick Howlett
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Joe Project, Montreal
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Improving Your Squash, G Gallery, Toronto
Part time Offerings, Museum London, London
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Contemporary Art, Halifax
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Saint Thomas University, Fredericton
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
University of Victoria
Selected Group Exhibitions
Heads, McIntosh Gallery, London
Line & Verse: Canada-Taiwan Exchange,
East Asian Library, Toronto
Public Information, Carl Louie, London
, Librairie Blaizot, Paris, France
Para//el Room, DNA Art Space, London
Magenta wants to push physical reality to its leaky margins,
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
No Boys with Frogs, DNA Art Space, London
Stewart Hall, Pointe Claire
Berlin
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver;
Art Gallery of Edmonton, Edmonton;
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
The Power Plant, Toronto;
Museum London, London;
Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal;
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Realm, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Studio, Vancouver (curated by Lucy Pullen)
Centre, Montréal
FrameWork 10/20
by Pardiss Amerian, Ella Gonzales and Patrick Howlett
(essay)
Susan Hobbs Gallery, October 2020
Feeling Good, Feeling Bad: The Self-Help Vibrations of Patrick Howlett
by Heather White (review)
Momus, 19 January 2017
PART-TIME OFFERINGS
by Cassandra Getty, Robin Peck, Annie Cash
(exhibition catalogue)
Musum London, 2014
Patrick Howlett
by Ben Portis (review)
Canadian Art, Winter 2015
What Is and What Is Not: Patrick Howlett at G Gallery
by Brad Phillips (review)
ArtSlant, August 2014
Patrick Howlett at Museum London
by Kim Neudorf (review)
akimblog, 20 May 2014
Howlett's exhibition explores Offerings
by Joe Belanger (review)
London Free Press, 11 May 2014
Patrick Howlett
by John Kissick (article)
RBC Canadian Painting Competition: Fifteen-Year Anniversary, 2013
Patrick Howlett
by E.C. Woodley (review)
Border Crossings, Issue 126, May 2013
Patrick Howlett Draws Fresh Vectors for Painting
by Wojciech Olejnik (review)
Canadian Art online, January 2013
Patrick Howlett: the possible and the real
by Adam Lauder (review)
Hunter and Cook 08, Winter 2011
... Pas tout à fait ... Not Quite ...
by Lon Dubinsky (catalogue)
Pointe Claire: Galerie d’art Stewart Hall, 2011
Patrick Howlett: Possibly Real
by Richard Rhodes (review)
canadianart.ca, 14 September 2010
Art Wanderings 2
by Chris Le Page (review)
clonegallery.wordpress.com, 15 February 2009
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Eye Candy
by David Balzer (review)
Eye Weekly, 30 December 2008
Gallery Going
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 27 December 2008
the higher you get the higher you get
by Katherine Laidlaw (review)
thingsofdesire.ca, 11 December 2008
Creative, Independent, thinker
by Laverne Stewart (article)
The Daily Gleaner, 13 September 2008
Dusseldorf Do
by Leah Sandals (review)
Now Magazine, 17-24 July 2008
RBC Canadian Painting Competition: Ten Years
by ed. Lauren MacMillan (book)
Toronto: Royal Bank of Canada, 2008
Fresh Wind from the West
by David Jaeger (review)
NOW Magazine, 2-8 March 2006
Trip-in
by Betty Ann Jordan (preview)
Toronto Life, February 2006
Reflets III
by Robert Dufour (exhibition text)
Opuscule, May 2003