Patrick Doyle

Patrick Doyle was born in 1971 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He moved to Rochester in 1979. That same year, he fell out of a tree and hit his head on a rock, suffering a depressed skull fracture near the area of the brain involved in spatial relations. During his hospital stay, he began constructing three-dimensional Halloween scenes out of paper. He specifically remembers this as his first foray into three-dimensionality in craft. Could the fall have triggered a heightened awareness of geometric form?

A graduate of Allendale Columbia High School, Patrick received his BFA in sculpture and video from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

In the course of his studies of sculpture and classical architecture, Patrick’s research focused upon Platonic Polyhedrals (the basic archetypal building blocks of three-dimensional geometry). His fascination with the historical evolution of geometry as an art and science continues to inspire his work and travels. He travels around the country to attend conferences about art, geometry, and architechture, and is an annual winter resident at architect Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti community. He is influenced and inspired by the work of R. Buckminster-Fuller, Kenneth Snellson, and local architect and author Claude Bragdon. He can be found seven days a week in his ARTISANworks studio, which he calls the “Groovy Geometry Institute of Higher Dimensions” on the Boulevard Garibaldi.