Patrick Collier

Patrick Collier is an artist who has written for the Midwest journal “The New Art Examiner,” plus for the online journals UltraPDX and PORT. He holds a BA in Philosophy and an MA in English Literature from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, plus an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Prior to moving to Oregon in 2003, Collier and his wife operated the Chicago gallery bona fide to critical but not financial success. They live in Corvallis.

Owen Premore and Johnny Beaver at Gretchen Schuette Gallery

January 31, 2023Patrick Collier

The exhibition "RingrIngriNrinG" explores technology and the human condition. Definitive answers are not part of the exploration.

Confounding spectacle: Heather Goodwind at Portland’5

November 26, 2022Patrick Collier

The painter's lush and surrealistic canvases are right at home in the theater space. Patrick Collier considers their colorful allure.

Art Review: Pat Boas at Oregon Contemporary

February 25, 2022Patrick Collier

Pat Boas' abstract wallpaper and painting installation for the "Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts 2017-2019" exhibition at Oregon Contemporary captures Patrick Collier's attention.

Artist Taryn Tomasello takes aim at the Culture of Excess in a show at Portland’s SE Cooper Contemporary

January 16, 2022Patrick Collier

The artist's assemblages are products of conscientious sustainability and a longing for a less cluttered and misused world, and express a vague hope for a better outcome.

An artist-activist “keeps on keeping on”

October 5, 2021Patrick Collier

Patrick Collier explores Bruce Burris's multi-layered collages, on view at the Schneider Museum of Art.

Patrick Collier: Not another pretty picture

May 17, 2020Patrick Collier

Artist/critic Patrick Collier has profound doubts about our ability to build something better out of this pandemic.

Celebrating mundane interiors

March 19, 2020Patrick Collier

Patrick Collier considers the appeal of the everyday still life scenes captured in Leslie Hickey's photographs on view at Holding Contemporary

The brain of the beholder

January 29, 2020Patrick Collier

Patrick Collier offers ways to understand David Eckard's sculptures now on view at the North View Gallery

Amina Ross at Ditch Projects: a meander nevertheless flows

October 28, 2019Patrick Collier

Amina Ross's multimedia installation at Ditch Projects in Springfield meditates on the nature of water and light.

Art review: Through the pinhole, vastly

September 20, 2019Patrick Collier

Julia Bradshaw's "Survey" at the Truckenbrod Pop-Up Gallery in Corvallis investigates imaginary planets through a pinhole camera.

Bruce Conkle at Nine Gallery: Gone but not forgotten

September 4, 2019Patrick Collier

Conkle's art seems bleak, but he offers a few rays of sunshine for those who "don't know why we are here."

Ryan Kitson: Caution, artist at play

March 14, 2019Patrick Collier

The first words of the wall text for Ryan Kitson’s exhibit, “Suds Ur Duds/Fermentation Elastic”—at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon, through Saturday—ask the audience to take in…

A bit cheeky but for the tongue to a sore tooth

January 29, 2019Patrick Collier

Given the title of Ashley Miller’s exhibition, Sweet Things, one might expect her photographs to contain a certain amount of eye candy, perhaps something gooey, or on a conceptual level,…