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Graeme Patterson Grudge Match
May 15 - September 5, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7 - 9 pm Related Programming: The Main Event, Thursday, May 6, 2010, 7 pm
Executed in Graeme Patterson's signature style, Grudge Match imagines a freestyle wrestling match between the artist and his long-lost childhood friend, Yuki. Best friends at the age of 5, Patterson lost touch with Yuki once his friend returned to Japan four years later. Through sculptural installation and stop-motion video, puppets of Patterson and Yuki as teenagers engage in a fictional match in a high school gymnasium. A conflation of personal experience and emotional memory, the installation recreates and plays with Patterson's memories of his first best friend, exploring boyhood rivalry and the bonds of friendship.
Image: Graeme Patterson, Grudge Match (in progress), 2009 - 2010.
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