Patrick Michael Ballard
April 8, 5:30 pm

Patrick Michael Ballard is a Los Angeles based artist engaging sculpture, storytelling, performance, pedagogy, and play as tools for understanding the formation of the self, the social constructs of creativity, and the behavioral nature of animistic experience. His works have taken on a wild variety of different forms including his theatrical espace room installed at Machine Project, Los Angeles (Return to FOREVERHOUSE), a five act play about his high-school internet avatar performed at Museum as Retail Space (After the Rise and Fall of Teenager), an experimental set of stand-up comedy (I SO SORE FOR EVER THING) performed at the Les Urbaines performance festival in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a two-story public sculpture mounted to the front of the historic Gamble House in Pasadena, California—activated every-hour-on-the-hour by a 3-minute micro opera. His current work involves the staging of private object-oriented, single player, improvisational rituals created with a pantheon of props and interactive sculptures for one participant/collaborator at a time (Fool’s Window), an instructional piano album titled The Metaphysical Piano, and a project still in process with the Todd Madigan Gallery at CSU Bakersfield (Weird Alms) in which he organized the placement of contemporary art objects as gifts, props, and learning tools into the permanent care, collaboration, and stewardship of the students. Patrick has exhibited work both locally and internationally and received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts and his BFA from CSU Long Beach. 

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