Patrick Marold
Patrick Marold has been working to bind the physical environment with our perception for over two decades. Since earning a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1997, his artistic development has maintained an intimate connection to the landscape, extending the environmental traditions unique to post-minimalism. Refinement of his practice has been pursued in various locations in America and abroad, including opportunities like that of his 2000 Fulbright Fellowship in Iceland where he began to more fully direct his energies to create works that utilize spatial dynamics to generate an enhanced awareness of light and movement. Exhibiting widely in galleries and museums, he has earned multiple awards and recognition for his studio works as well as his publicly cited projects. In 2007, Marold received international attention for The Windmill Project, a temporary landscape installation in Vail, Colorado, which seeded a local valley with a mass of light-generating turbines committed to capturing and visualizing the choreography of the wind through a unique landscape. In the last decade, he has completed numerous public commissions including the 7-acre installation, Shadow Array, at Denver’s International Airport; as well as the sky and sound work, Solar Drones, located in Canada’s National Music Centre. Diversity in setting, scale, and technical realization has equipped him with the skill and interest to apply his vision across a broad range of sites while preserving the unity of vision. Marold maintains a studio in Colorado and continues working toward a means of spatial intercession, inviting the viewer to consider specific conditions of landscape and materials, and their impact on personal and communal perception.
Patrick Marold’s work in The Space(s) Between is The Windmill Project, 2007-ongoing, site-specific installation of 2,000 8-feet tall posts with wind-activated components which turn small generators powering LED downlights, dimensions variable. Previously installed in locations such as Vail, Colorado, and Kjos, Iceland, the installation is featured in Colorado Springs just outside of the Ent Center for the Arts on the Pulpit Rock and Austin Bluffs Open Space. Site-specific photos to follow soon!