Artblog | Patrick Coué

February 3, 2022 by Patrick Coué

Complex and impassioned, Shwarga Bhattacharjee’s works at Twelve Gates Arts are immersive trips into personal and historical territory

Patrick Coué sees the materially-complex paintings by Shwarga Bhattacharjee and calls the works a perfect immersion into a reverie space far away from our “world of constant mediated inputs.” The works are both abstract historical landscapes and topographic maps, that are layered with meanings and feelings, Patrick says.

April 24, 2021 by Patrick Coué

Fantasy and Reality, two takes on the ‘Carnival of Ruin’ at West Chester University

In his “choose your own adventurer” two-option article, Patrick first imagines visiting an exhibition 40 years in the future; then he swings around to discussing the same show, which he saw in 2021. We hope you enjoy this experiment in art writing!

April 21, 2021 by Patrick Coué

Programming at Philadelphia museums addresses racial disparities with varying success

Patrick Coue rounds up the hits and misses of recent local museum programming to address issues of racial disparity in society and the arts, and points to a groundbreaking installation by Fred Wilson from 1992 as an important example in this field.

October 20, 2020 by Patrick Coué

Gilbert Lewis’s empathetic gay male gaze at Woodmere Art Museum, Kapp Kapp Gallery and William Way Center

Patrick Coue visits the Gilbert Lewis exhibitions at Woodmere Art Museum, Kapp Kapp, and William Way (virtual). Having posed for Gilbert Lewis himself, he has personal insight on what it feels like to be in the shoes of Lewis’s many subjects.