Jacob Patterson

Man, the new updates for Vine, Twitter, and Instagram are on point. Technology takeover. Developers are really figurin out how to appease consumers. It’s a crazy Age of Enlightenment and Connectivity.

I keep telling myself, and others, that I will be a much funner guy on the other side of this mountain. I hope two things:

1. I make it that far.
2. I remember how to have fun once I get there.

I am hopeful I will achieve my goals with these hopes realized!

Time to stay cocky.

It’s easy to ignore a hater’s insistence that you can’t do something and just go for it anyway. It’s almost more fuel for the fire. It’s a completely different story to try something anyway when it’s a friend you trust that’s telling you this is too much for you or that it’s impossible. Then it takes an immense sense of self-confidence, bordering arrogance.

You have to just know you’re right, and challenge that belief every chance you get, to prove it.

Someone just asked me where I have been. They noticed my lack of posts.

My answer was that, to be honest, I feel like I was a complete tool on the internet and I was embarrassed at how foolish I had become. I had to take a step back and realize that what I was working toward was irrelevant and superficial and there were more important things to be done. I had to separate myself from my ignorant public image for a while. I will resurface at some point if I feel my work worthy of people’s valuable attention. Right now the only thing I am doing worth noticing is my work at my day job at the Think Tank.

And I gotta say

Vices are so much more satisfying when you’ve been fucking killing it all day. I’m boutta slam a $6 bottle of wine TODAMUHFUCKINFACE. I’ve clocked 65 hours so far this week of SKRAIT HUSTLIN. Clocking hours while hustling also makes you realize just how lazy you are when you’re lazy.

Time for some nature.

I just started a resumé for the first time in about three years. I ran out of time for a submission deadline, but this is what I got in it. These three years have been DAMN BUSY:

Jacob Patterson

CONTACT

Address 939 Maple Ave, Second Floor, Los Angeles CA, 90015

Email thinktankgallery@gmail.com

Phone 916.670.3801

BORN

1987 Sacramento, CA

EDUCATION

2012

B.A. Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

EXPERIENCE

June 2010-Present    

Gallery Manager/Co-Founder, Think Tank Gallery, LA, CA

- Development, brand design, managing art sales, curation, marketing, organizing live events, exhibiting personal work, public relations, location management for film/video productions, hospitality, research

Jan-June 2010 

Marketing, DeviantART, Hollywood, CA

- Writing and editing material, reaching out to clients, project management, research, expediting communications with design team

EXHIBITIONS

2013 YOU ARE HERE II: Shoot a Cop, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Dude, Monsters!, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 REPRESENT: A Group Exhibition, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Make Art Make Friends, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Heart & Sole, Yojie Pop Up, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Native American Students Exhibit, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

2012 The Poster Show, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 YOU ARE HERE, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Cannibal Flower, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Art History Undergrad Students Association Annual Selections, Westwood, CA

2011 Samsung Coast to Coast, New York, NY

2011 Downtown Train, Echoes from the Sun, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Cannibal Flower, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010 SOUND AFFECTS ART, Brewery Art Colony, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Sacramento Urban Art, Vox Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2009 Mural Exhibition, Vox Gallery, Sacramento, CA

LECTURES AND PANELS

2012 Painting Sneakers workshop, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Custom Kicks: A Workshop with Sole Junkie and Jacob Patterson, Hammer Museum, Westwood, CA

EVENT PRODUCTION

2013 Dead Meadow, Psychic Ills, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2013 YOU ARE HERE II: Shoot a Cop, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Stones Throw Artist OH NO Video Party, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 A Psychotropic Summer Vol. 2, Think Tank Gallery,Los Angeles, CA

2012 Feast of Flesh, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Dude, Monsters! Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 ALL NIGHT LONG, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Weird on Top: A Night of Improv, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Style House, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 REPRESENT: A Group Exhibition, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 The Take Over, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Metal Mother, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 The Poster Show, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 NYE Masquerade, Think Tank Collective, Los Angeles, CA

2011 One Be Lo/Binary Star Private Performance, Think Tank Collective, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Jungle and Paint, Think Tank Collective, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Downtown Train, Echoes From The Sun, Think Tank Collective, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Cannibal Flower, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 YOU ARE HERE, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Cannibal Flower, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Los Angeles Loft, Think Tank Collective, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Sacramento Urban Art, Vox Gallery, Sacramento, CA

COMMISSIONS AND PROJECTS

2012 Jazz Reggae Festival, VIP Lounge Art Direction, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Brisk Iced Tea, Star Wars x Brisk Campaign, New York, NY

2012 Hands of Hope, Portrait sneaker designs, Orange County, CA

2012 Virgin Mobile, Freefest Sneaker Design, Washington, D.C.

2012 Brian Wilson MLB All Star Game, Portrait sneaker design, Phoenix, AZ

2011 Konami, Metal Gear Solid sneaker design, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Samsung Coast to Coast, Camera preview and exhibit, United States

2010 SXEPhil, YouTube branding sneaker design, Venice, CA

2009 CLUB VENUE, Lead Artist, Sacramento, CA

I’m going through a treatment I wrote for YOU ARE HERE. I knew I would be viewing this when planning for YOU ARE HERE II. I am realizing how much I love my dumb as sense of humor because I left myself stupid little notes and I am cracking up at 2010 Jacob right now. I’m happy that 2012 Jacob still thinks he’s funny.