- The Idyllwild Arts Academy is the country’s premier and internationally-acclaimed residential arts high school (September through May) which provides pre-professional training in the arts and a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum to a diverse student body of gifted young artists. Idyllwild Arts Academy's 300 students hail from more than 25 countries and pursue artistic excellence in: Music, Theatre, Dance, Visual Art, Creative Writing, Moving Pictures, InterArts / Fashion Design. Graduates of Idyllwild Arts Academy currently excel in every professional field of the arts including Broadway theatre, primetime television, motion pictures, graphic design, photography and more.
Here is the link: http://www.idyllwildarts.org
Patrick's dad found the school for him. An amazing school. Only 300 students from 25 countries.
The school really liked Patrick's portfolio. Here is a sample of his submissions and his descriptions from his portfolio submission. (All words are his).
Confessions on a Dance Floor is about a girl who parties and goes to glamorous night clubs to escape herself and loose her own sadness in loud music and alcohol but when she sits down it all goes black and all the darkness creeps back into her.
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| Confessions on a Dance Floor |
(Without a Scream) is a self portrait of sorts. When I moved to Okinawa I felt beat up from
my life in North Carolina. Long story (and I really mean long) I was given a
chance to start over, not every one gets that. So this painting is a sort of
funeral card for that life.
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| When One Thing Ends Another Thing Begins (Without a Scream) |
Pink Vicodin is a kind of a manifesto about the fashion spreads. How
pretty, thin women sell us all our fashion needs in these pretty photographs
that show us these same thin, pretty women wearing expensive dresses. They, for
some reason, all look dead or like drugged mannequins. They seem
disconnected to whatever fabulous location there in.
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| Pink Vicodin |
The Show Must Go on was inspired by the
song by queen of the same name. Freddie Mercury had an awful disease and even
as he became ravaged by it he still came out and put on a show. “…Inside my heart it breaking and my makeup may be flaking
but my smile still stays on…”
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| The Show Must Go On |
Stripped is a pencil sketch of my friend, who has had a lot of hard times, I took out the hair to keep with this androgynous look I try to go for. I thought this would be a good piece just because. I was inspired by her look and aura.
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| Stripped |
Plastic Makes Perfect, I
am fascinated with people who get a lot of Plastic surgery like Amanda Lepore.
Its just an interesting visual
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| Plastic Makes Perfect |
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| Lauren Gets Her Lips Done |
Born Villain is a self portrait of me, I have a great life, a lot of
friends but there are times when I feel down, for whatever reason, this is a
reflection of those blue moon mood swings.
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| Born Villian |
I
Can’t Sleep Until I Devour You was
inspired by a good yet highly disturbing movie called "Grimm Love" about cannibal
killer
Oliver Hagen and Fashion spreads in Vogue
magazine. The over all story to this piece is how we love something so much we want to make it apart of us
be with it forever like the idea of marriage(these piece conveys more of the
the psychotic undertones of love.)
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| I Can't Sleep Until I Devour You |
Hooker on a Church Street Corner is about a girl who is looking for salvation, but rather
than through the traditional sense of theology she looks for salvation in the last place she’ll ever want
to look. Because if she throws her life into chaos it will feel normal.
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| Hooker on a Church Street Corner |
Snow White is part of a triptych about a girl with features similar
to the fairy tale, with red lips and pale skin. She self induces temporary
comas with heroin because her prince left the castle. She feels so dead inside that the needle is the kiss she
needs to bring her to life.
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| Snow White in Chanel Lipstick |
We are very proud of Patrick. I can't say that I am not Mom-nervous, I am. Patrick will go to the school when we get to the states in June.
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