ThreeWalls Presents: Patrick Lundeen, Sin Will Find You Out September 5, 2008

ThreeWalls Announces:

Patrick Lundeen: Sin Will Find You Out

Opening Reception: September 5, 2008, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk: September 6, 2008 , 300 PM
On View until October 11, 2008

CHICAGO: This September, ThreeWalls embarks on a new season of programming with new work by their summer resident, Patrick Lundeen (Brooklyn), a handsome facelift and a new ‘bookstore’ at their 119 North Peoria Street gallery. Join us, September 5, 2008 for Lundeen’s American debut, Sin Will Find You Out, and the launching of our new resource center and ‘bookstore,’ designed by Chicago-based artist John Preus.

Patrick Lundeen’s paintings vibrate in person. The accumulation of twitching, stitch-like brush-strokes and bold colors seem to electrify his singular, emblematic imagery – a mixed bag of fallen pop-culture heroes, domestic trappings, log cabins and the supernatural. In total, Lundeen’s (often recurrent) imagery generates a kind of personal vernacular that adds up to his own perverse totem. The dirty old man and the lonely bachelor get equal time, and may be one and the same, between Woody Allen masks and a 2 a.m. hand-me-down television, Lundeen permeates his paintings with feelings of unease, fear, and as he calls them, the “midnight creeps.”

For his ThreeWalls exhibition, his first since relocating to the U.S., Lundeen will show a series of new paintings positioned alongside video work. Here, religious crosses and Spiderman are his pop-culture avatars in an on-going negotiation between sex and guilt.

ThreeWalls would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation in providing support for this renovation and new program.

ThreeWalls is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to contemporary art practice and discourse. Through the residency program(s), SOLO project and quarterly publication Paper and Carriage, ThreeWalls aims to provide opportunities for experimentation, chance, critical dialogue and context for artists, curators and writers who are at pivotal points in their careers.

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