Patrick Marold

Artist, Patrick Marold, has been working to bind the physical environment with our perceived orientation for over two decades. Since earning a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1997, his artistic development has maintained an intimate connection to the landscape and architecture, responding to site specific conditions. Refinement of his practice has been pursued in various locations in America and abroad, including opportunities like that of his early Fulbright Fellowship in Iceland where he began to more fully direct his energies to creating works which utilize spatial dynamics to generate an enhanced perception of light and movement. He has earned multiple awards and recognition for his publicly sited projects and continues to exhibit studio works. Marold first received international attention in 2007 for The Windmill Project, a temporary landscape installation in Vail, Colorado, which seeded a local valley with a mass of light-generating turbines committed to capturing and visualizing the choreography of the wind through a unique landscape. He has completed numerous public commissions including the 7-acre installation, Shadow Array, at Denver’s International Airport; and he more recently participated in the 2023 Arctic Circle Residency. Diversity in setting, scale, and technical realization have equipped him with the expertise and interest to apply his vision across a broad range of sites while preserving a unity of vision. Marold maintains a studio in the hills above Boulder, Colorado and continues working toward a dialog between the viewer and our surroundings to impact personal and communal perception.