PAT PLACE
Pat Place graduated from Northern Illinois University, IL with a BFA in Painting & Sculpture. She moved to New York in 1975 and was a founding member and guitarist of The Contortions and Bush Tetras, who she continues to work with. Place has been showing her visual art in New York galleries since 1977.
Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions
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The Fireplace Project 2020— 3 Day Weekend Fall,
curated by Pamela Willoughby
Longhouse Reserve 2020 —Summer Benefit & Gala, honoring Julian Schnabel and Donna Karan
Guild Hall Museum 2019 — Parenthood Benefit & Gala
East Hampton, NY
AI Earthling Gallery 2013 — Woodstock, NY
Harper’s 2012 — East Hampton, NY
ILLE Arts — 2012, Amagansett, NY
KS, NY NY 2008 — No Wave, Post Punk,
Underground New York 1976-80" exhibit, curated by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley
Jane Kim/Thrust Projects NYC NY—Happy Vacation NY, NY
Jane Kim/Thrust Projects NYC NY, 2008 —
The End, 1981 - Infinity Solo photography exhibit
Glenn O’Brien Review
ARTFORUM
Tin Pan Alley
Pat Place is best known for her work as a musician—she played guitar with the original Contortions, New York’s infamous funk noir group, and now leads the Bush Tetras, an artful New York dance band—but she has been making paintings, sculptures, and photographs for as long as she has been making music. Place recently had her first solo exhibition, a group of large color photographs, at this bar in the Times Square area. It was an appropriate setting for the work, an artists’ and musicians’ hangout where every once in a while some of the local color drifts in and a few patrons might have thought that the photos—tableaux of toy monsters, souvenir objects, and other exotic items (there may even be a pink elephant in there somewhere)—were a hallucination. These bizarre scenes are built up from Place’s large collection of pop monsters and miniature pop objects.... Pat resides and works in NYC NY and
Springs, NY.
Rock & Roll Kisses print on archival paper, 15 x10- open edition - 2011
Pat Place, guitarist and founding member of
The Bush Tetras
The End, Infinity
MUSIC
Pat Place was the original guitarist and one of the founding members of the Contortions, one of the central bands in the New York no wave music scene.
She then formed the Bush Tetras. Place and vocalist Cynthia Sley produced the most distinctive aspects of the Tetras sound. Place's guitar lines were rhythmic and distortion-filled. From the 1990s until present, Place performs and works with The Bush Tetras and previously, various noise music bands in New York City and Europe.
She participated in Maggie Estep's song and video for Hey Baby, from her 1994 album
No More Mister Nice Girl.
Le Lapin: Wood, Tree Trunk & Bunny 2021
3 Day Weekend, East Hampton - curated by Pamela Willoughby