Patrick Lysaght's enhanced photographs of natural transitions capture how structure forms as things change, which underscores the phenomenon of entropy and the subtle progression of time.
His new book, Morphology of Fleeting Structure - the art and science of fluid flow and crystal growth is also the subject of an award winning documentary film. Painting with saturated colors of light, in the style of Vittorio Storaro, accentuates the beauty of patterns we share with Earth.
“My work highlights our physical connection to the environment in stunning examples, hidden in plain sight,” he has said.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Painting photographs in colorful light is the new painting. The desktop computer is the new easel. Photographing patterns of fleeting and enduring structure in nature illustrates simple and extraordinary physical characteristics we share with the world we inhabit.
I'm a lifelong experimenter and researcher. Art projects are investigations documented nonverbally. The noir and surreal multi-exposure images possess musical themes worthy of original soundtracks.
I was jury selected in 2021 as a Featured Artist by the European Circle Foundation for the Arts Spotlight Magazine - 25 as an artist who exemplifies “current trends and original practices that tell the story of what visual art looks like today.” https://circle-arts.com/patrick-lysaght/
I have served on funding panels for the New Mexico Arts Division categories of music, artist-in-residence and interdisciplinary projects.
My work also includes concave/convex optical illusions of irregular topography that give rise to age old questions of free will, chance and determinism.
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In the semiconductor industry I measured nearly 80 of the 92 naturally occurring elements of the periodic table as a nano-electronic materials researcher. I taught physics at the University of New Mexico and acoustics at the College of Santa Fe.
Peer-reviewed Materials Science: (co)authored >250 scientific articles with > 3k citations
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=VKIVCUQAAAAJ
1220 Parkway Drive Santa Fe, NM 87507