Lou Patrou

He has been drawing and painting faces and figures since the mid 1960s and has a portfolio that spans over four decades. Lou’s work is some times difficult to categorize because he doesn’t always use the same artistic language, repeat the same disciplines or follow a predictable straight direction with his work. Some pieces are whimsical and colorful and have a strong design sense, some are serious black & white surrealistic pieces and others pop iconic. In the 1980’s he did a lot of spontaneous works and now plans his drawings and paintings out more carefully with more design focus and also has scaled up the work.

The one definitive thing you could say is that Lou is obsessed with making faces and finding new ways to create designs and forms out of them and inside of them

Lou has exhibited his work in galleries in New York City, San Diego, Los Angeles, upstate New York, New Orleans and London.