Through a combination of methods - including drawing, dyeing, quilting, embroidery and appliqué - Patrick Pipkin-Arnold makes fiber-based works of portraiture, still-life and abstraction. Drawing variously from his mother’s Mormon quilting tradition, DIY punk/hardcore culture and modernist painting, his figurative images depict domestic interior scenes based on photographs and life-drawings. Still-life is informed by Pipkin-Arnold’s ceramic practice. Subjects are rendered in fabric, broken down into simpler forms. Personal interaction and experience with his subjects, typically friends and acquaintances, inform and alter the images. Abstractions function as color studies, addenda to figurative works. Using the mediums of self-taught DIY craft and ceramics he aims to create a slower, personal and holistic approach to his subjects.

Patrick Pipkin-Arnold (b. 1982) was raised in El Centro, CA, the heart of the Imperial Valley desert. In high school he studied ceramics, drawing and photography, ultimately receiving his BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in NYC in 2005. He began hand-embroidery in 2008 as a way to keep busy between photo and video projects. Eventually incorporating machine sewing into his practice, it had become his prime medium by 2016. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.