Bushido

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 36"

$500

Patrick Harris

Patrick Harris was born and raised in the piedmont of North Carolina. His mother was an art teacher when he was just a toddler and she took him with her to her classes and let him join along. He’s been drawing and painting ever since he could hold a pencil or brush. His fascination with art led him to study its history.

His interests were most captured by two of the most adverse styles in art history: pop art with its unfeeling look at culture and society through graphic means, and expressionism with its extreme search to convey the deepest of emotions through the brush. Patrick's work is a continuing effort to combine the didactic effects of both styles: trying to capture the warmth of expression in the cold style of the pop graphic.

Patrick received a scholarship from the statesville artists guild to attend mitchell community college in his hometown of Statesville, NC and completed his A.F.A. there in the spring of 2004. He was accepted into the art school at UNC Greensboro in the fall of 2004 but spent only one semester there, deciding instead to work and grow on his own. Since then he has been working and painting but took time off from showing his work until the winter of 2007, at which time he began showing his work again in galleries in his local area and nationally.