Flowers Under the Sun - Oil on Canvas 24'' x 20''

The art of Patrick Girod is urgent and immediate. It gives viewers little time to think, drawing them into a kinetic, expressive reality that is far less spontaneous than the conventional world we live in. Girod uses oil with the abandon of Pollock and incorporates figuration with a tongue-in-cheek wit that resembles Picasso’s. Yet, with its contemporary, technologically informed palette, his work has taken what it needs from art history and moved confidently into the 21st Century’s cultural landscape.

Girod’s practice has been referred to as neuronal impressionism, emphasizing the vivacious way in which his paintings play upon viewers’ nerve endings. His work starts with emotion. An event, sensation, or feeling bursts onto an empty canvas, growing from an unrealized dream into a fantastic reality. Paint pools and dances. Colors weave in and out of each other. Gardens, sometimes jungles, emerge out of vibrant choruses of marks. Yet Girod’s paintings never become dense. He uses, at most, three hues per artwork and he is firmly committed to simplicity; he understands the range of intensity conveyed in a single mark. Girod’s minimalism makes the dynamism of his work all the more stirring, inviting viewers to experience the poignant force of each gesture.

Patrick Girod has exhibited throughout Europe. He lives and works in both France and Switzerland.

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