Patrick Howlett is a Canadian visual artist born in

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on September 17, 1971. He is currently based in Montreal, Quebec. Howlett obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts at

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in 1997 and completed a Master of Fine Arts at the

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in 2006.Artist Biography. Susan Hobbs Gallery. Accessed July 27, 2013
/ref> In 2008, Howlett was a finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. His internationally exhibited work typically involves a commentary on technology and the digital age that results in multimedia paintings and drawings, and is often centred on the relationship between an image and a title. His work has been presented at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal; The Power Plant, Toronto; Art Gallery of Edmonton, Edmonton; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin; Maison de la culture Côtes-des-Neiges, Montréal; Khyber Institute for Contemporary Arts, Halifax.

Art Practice

Howlett’s artistic practice is careful, methodical and deliberate. He works in a variety of media, including

tempera Tempera (), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera also refers to the paintings done ...

paint, watercolour paint,

silverpoint Silverpoint (one of several types of metalpoint) is a traditional drawing technique first used by medieval scribes on manuscripts. History A silverpoint drawing is made by dragging a silver rod or wire across a surface, often prepared with gesso ...

, coloured pencil and

charcoal Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents. In the traditional version of this pyrolysis process, cal ...

. He is well known for his geometric abstract paintings and drawings, which are often compact, dense and intensely layered. Howlett works with traditional surface treatments, media and brushwork that go back to the

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. Howlett also incorporates a digital element into his work: he generates Google image searches for inspiration and source material which he then synthesizes into the colour, shape and composition of his paintings.Laidlaw, Katherine. the higher you get, the higher you get. Things of Desire: Canada’s Alternative Art Weekly, 11 December 2008.

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Review in Canadian Art online magazine by Wojciech Olejnik"See It" review in Canadian Art magazineInformation on exhibition with Gary Spearin at the Khyber Centre For The ArtsReview in Globe and Mail newspaper by Gary Michael DaultInformation on 2012 exhibition at Susan Hobbs GalleryFrameWork essay by Kim Neudorf
{{DEFAULTSORT:Howlett, Patrick 1971 births Living people Artists from Toronto Canadian male painters 20th-century Canadian painters 21st-century Canadian painters 20th-century Canadian male artists 21st-century Canadian male artists

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