(Clockwise) Spiderman #1, Spiderman #2, and Spiderman #3.  2008.

Patrick Lundeen’s   paintings vibrate in person. The accumulation of twitching, stitch-like brush-strokes and bold colors seem to electrify his singular, emblematic imagery – a mixed bag of fallen pop-culture heroes, domestic trappings, log cabins and the supernatural. In toto,  Lundeen’s (often recurrent) imagery generates a kind of personal vernacular that adds up to his own perverse totem. The dirty old man and the lonely bachelor get equal time, and may be one and the same, between Woody Allen masks and a 2 a.m. hand-me-down television, Lundeen permeates his paintings with feelings of unease, fear, and as he calls them, the “midnight creeps.” 

For his ThreeWalls exhibition, his first since relocating to the U.S., Lundeen will show a series of new paintings positioned alongside video work. Here, religious crosses and Spiderman are his pop-culture avatars in an on-going negotiation between sex and guilt.

Patrick Lundeen received his MFA in painting from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. He shows regularly in Sweden, where he is represented by Wetterling Gallery in Stockholm. Other exhibitions include: Heidi Gilboy, Dundee, GB; L’oeil De Poisson, Quebec City; Stride Gallery, Calgary; The Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Art Tech Media, Spain. His work has recently been featured in Border Crossings Magazine and The National Post.

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 (Clockwise) Cross #1, Cross #2, and Cross #3.  2008.

 Cross #3.  2008.