Clayton Patterson’s art hats from the Lower East Side NYC
Posted on August 14th, 2009 by admin
Clayton Patterson and Elsa Rensa his wife life partner partner in art made these amazing wearable art hats before it became mainstream and marketed by corporations. Among move and shakers that have bought them are Jack Nicholson, Jim Dine, Matt Dillon, Gus Van Sant, Rob “Meathead” Reiner who later when on to become a famous film director, Mekons, and Clayton explains his art–a jack back for Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones too so check it out and enjoy some of the Lower East Side before it became gentrified supersized and turned in to a generic shopping mall and one big college dorm.
Clayton encourages artist to have hope and find ways to keep on going with their creativity and hats was one way he and Elsa kept on going.
Duration : 0:2:30
Sharing with you some words from one of my favourite artists ‘Jim Dine’. I am reading what he has to say about drawing!
Jim Dine, one of the most innovative artists of the post-1960s era, talks with Ann Shafer, the BMA’s istant Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at The Baltimore Museum of Art on September 10, 2008. 
Artist Jim Dine shows TateShots around his exhibition at Pace Wildenstein gallery. Part of our New York special issue. http://www.tate.org.uk/tateshots/issue17802/default.htm
Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive in the Duke University Libraries: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/dsva/