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Patrick Webster was born in Texas and grew up in a family that moved often. He lived in California, Oregon, Washington, Michigan and again in California. Sports was his major interest in high school, but he was always interested in art and was considering a major in art in college when the U.S. Army called.
He served in Europe and the Far East including two tours in Viet Nam where he was wounded, and spent two years in an Army hospital. Once discharged, he went back to college, received an MFA from Washington State University, and worked with art professors who were painfully honest about examining and challenging why and how to go about making art.
Patrick Webster's work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe. Webster had his first one person gallery exhibition in California in 1979.
Artist Statement:
"For me, making art is a way of re-visiting past experiences, challenging convention, and about the nature of confrontation. It's about creating chaos, building and important roles in the process.
Out of the chaos the solutions emerge. The answers that evolve are the consequences of my process; and not necessarily ends in themselves.
I consider my work a physical record of intellectual decisions and serendipitous acts; a history of process and my own evolution."
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