David Patrick Walsh
Walsh’s paintings are an allegorical analysis exploring the ways in which queerness acts as a catalyst for the reconstruction of perceived social structures. Each painting takes figurative interactions derived from resonant memories, and recontextualizes them amongst each other and allusions to art history. These individual interactions serve as linguistic elements which, through diagrammed gazes and their proximity to the overarching invented architecture, form a visual language that elucidates underlying tensions and conflicting ideas within a larger narrative. This architecture is created in a 3D modeling program. It is constructed using a similar strategy, amalgamating architectural elements from autobiographical and art-historical references to reify a capriccio-like interior landscape.