Lou Patrou, a self-taught artist from the greater New York City area, has been steadily
drawing and painting faces and figures for well over 40 years.
Patrou's work is difficult to categorize right away, because he doesn't always use the same artistic language, repeat the same disciplines,
color schemes or follow a straight predictable direction with his work. One thing you could say is that he is obsessed with making faces and
finding new ways to create designs and forms out of them. He prefers to jump around between several styles and techniques. His work can go
from tight graphic pop art, softly rendered whimsical and kitschy pieces to forms and shapes suggesting patterns, to visceral narratives. The
work has scaled up in size over the years, and as a body of work is constantly "mixing it up".
drawing and painting faces and figures for well over 40 years.
Patrou's work is difficult to categorize right away, because he doesn't always use the same artistic language, repeat the same disciplines,
color schemes or follow a straight predictable direction with his work. One thing you could say is that he is obsessed with making faces and
finding new ways to create designs and forms out of them. He prefers to jump around between several styles and techniques. His work can go
from tight graphic pop art, softly rendered whimsical and kitschy pieces to forms and shapes suggesting patterns, to visceral narratives. The
work has scaled up in size over the years, and as a body of work is constantly "mixing it up".
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| Lou Patrou |
| The Library Hotel Collection |
| 39" x 51" acrylic on watercolor paper 2012 |
| BARKING AT MOON 22" x 30" watercolor on paper 1984 |
| Delegates 40" x 60" acrylic and watercolor on paper2010 |
| Cat Guys Talking 22" x 30"pastel on paper 1984 |
| Ricky 40" x 60" acrylic on watercolor paper 2014 |
| Cemetery 18" x 24" graphite drawing on paper 2004 |
| Dog and Bones 22" x 30" watercolor on paper 1985 |
| The Big Bang 19" x 24" graphite on paper 2012 |
| Find 22" x 30" pastel on paper 1985 |
| Blue Flowers 15" x 19" graphite and acrylic on paper 2012 |
| Royalty 14" x 17" graphite drawing on paper 2001 |
| UFO Ladies 8" x 10" graphite on paper 1992 |
| The Church 11" x 14" graphite drawing on paper 2001 |
| Blue Cat 10 1/2 " x 13" pastel on paper 1972 |
