Patrick Costello
Patrick Costello is an interdisciplinary artist whose work revolves around ecological processes and participatory spectacle. He has exhibited work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY. He has performed in venues including Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY; Ars Nova, New York, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; and The Public Theater, New York, NY.
Costello is the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, was a Printer-in-Residence with Shandaken Projects, and has participated in residencies at LMCC, ACRE, and The Soil Factory, among others.
His writing has appeared in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. He holds an MFA from Hunter College and a BA from the University of Virginia.
And Eat it Too, 2023. Indigo dyed burlap sacks, wood chips, straw, hay, elephant dung, top soil, sit-tailored native seed mix, native plants, 14 x 14 x 14 feet (dimensions variable). Photo courtesy of the artist.
The Holes are Alive, 2024. Site-specific live performance, 75 minutes. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Composting, 2024. Archival c-print, 24 x 32 inches. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Ceding Ground, 2020-2021. Native plants, topsoil, leaf mulch, 25 x 28 feet (dimension variable). Photo courtesy of the artist.
Ceding Ground II, 2021. Cob (clay, sand, straw), Central Virginia native plant seed mix, 25 x 5 x 5 feet (dimensions variable). Photo courtesy of the artist.
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