CLAYTON PATTERSON

[2008]Documentarian is detained on street he's shot for years by Lincoln Anderson . — After doggedly trying to document firefighters responding to an alarm on Ludlow St. last Thursday afternoon, Lower East Side documentarian Clayton Patterson found himself handcuffed and spending a couple of hours in a Seventh Precinct cell after having repeatedly refused orders to keep his distance. ...
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2008-07-23_anderson.html

[2008]Rebel with a Lens: Neighborhood Preservation in the Darkness of Clayton Patterson by Jericho Parms. — The grated entrance to the Clayton Gallery and Outlaw Museum, once scrawled with a bold graffiti mural, now appears plain black, inconspicuous, with "161 Essex" and an arrow pointing to the "bell" hand written in white. Inside, Clayton Patterson sits among boxes. Artwork rests propped against the walls or hangs in the darkened eaves of the room. .....
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2008_parms.html

[2008]Stop watching me: Lower East Side rabble rousers rally at city hall by Emily Meredith. — At 3 p.m. yesterday, half a dozen men gathered outside of the fence surrounding City Hall.  Dressed mostly in genuinely distressed black leather jackets and truly worn jeans, the men—two with gray beards past their shoulders—looked out of place next to city politicos in pinstripes and pencil skirts. ......
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2008-04-04_meredith.html

[2007]Paths of Resistance in the East Village by John Stausbaugh. — For a long time the East Village was an urban frontier. The upper half of the Lower East Side, stretching from Houston Street north to 14th Street, and from Third Avenue and the Bowery to the East River, it was a toehold in America for generations of new immigrants — Irish, German, Jewish, Ukrainian, Puerto Rican and others — and a magnet for artists, bohemians, radicals and reformers. ....
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2007-09-14_strausbaugh.html

[2007]New York Blues. Is the Big Apple losing its creative touch by Sukhdev Sandhu. — The current rate of exchange may make New York attractive to Brits planning shopping blow-outs, but to a growing number of its writers and intellectuals the city is in danger of creative obsolescence. One of them is Clayton Patterson, editor of the compendious Resistance: a Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side (Seven Stories Press), who singles out the Tompkin Square riots in August 1988 as a decisive moment in its decline.
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2007-09-27_sandhu.html

[2007]Das Ende der Bowery. Abschied von von der wilden Zeit. Fernsehreportage von Anette Dittert. — Sie war die Straße der Verlierer, der Künstler und Exzentriker. Die Bowery im Südosten Manhattans war das legendäre letzte Bohemeviertel New Yorks. Maler und Musiker lebten hier direkt neben Punks und Obdachlosen-Absteigen. Niemand hätte sich bis vor kurzem vorstellen können, dass das Geld und die WallStreet-Yuppies auch hier Einzug halten würden.
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2007-07-21_dittert.html

[2006]The powdery contents are gone, but the stamp of addiction remains by Colin Moynihan. — Generations of addicts have prowled the Lower East Side looking for a fix, and countless bags of heroin have changed hands there. The powder in those bags was quickly consumed; the empty bags tossed aside until most of them were blown away by the wind or washed away by the rain. But some of them have found their way into a collection maintained by Clayton Patterson. ...
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2006-08-01_moynihan.html

[2005]Art outpost cultivates from outside the mainstream by Sara G. Levin. — A red neon star throbs behind the grated Clayton Gallery and Outlaw Museum storefront on Essex Street. The star’s lines within a circle represent a magic symbol by John Dee — the mathematician and philosophical advisor to Elizabeth I — said Nico Dios, the work’s artist. ...
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2005-10-26_levin.html

[2005]The Lower East Side, up close and personal by John Strausbaugh. — If you have attended any public gathering on the Lower East Side or in the East Village over the last 25 years - a punk rock gig, a community board meeting, a poetry slam, a Santeria service, the infamous Tompkins Square Park riot in 1988 - chances are you're somewhere in Clayton Patterson's archives. .....
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2005-08-25_strausbaugh.html

[2005]Police infiltrate protest by Jim Dwyer. — Undercover New York City police officers have conducted covert surveillance in the last 16 months of people protesting the Iraq war, bicycle riders taking part in mass rallies and even mourners at a street vigil for a cyclist killed in an accident, a series of videotapes show. ......
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2005-12-22_dwyer.html

[2004]The Alternative Universe of Clayton Patterson by Al Orensanz Ph.D. — A Canadian born artist (Calgary, Alberta, 1948) and long term resident of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Clayton Patterson is publicly identified as the visual chronicler of that neighborhood and a permanent point of reference. …
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2004-09-04_orensanz.html

[2004]The Sino-French connection. Eating the Lower East Side with Clayton Patterson by Jennifer Blowdryer. — I'm fond of people whom I call Mr./Miss New Yorks, the ones that greet everybody they run into and know the lay of the land, but Clayton Patterson is more of a mayor type, documenting and keeping track of hundreds of us. …
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2004-03-01_blowdryer.html

[2001]Poems dedicated to Clayton Patterson by Anntelope. — Why do they do it? Call him? Perhaps, Because he comes. He’s had his ears pierced by  sirens his skull cracked by the wooden dildo of an impotent police officer …
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2001-04-01_anntelope.html

[2000]At the core of the Big Apple by Charlene Rooke. — Scientists have been known to worry about whether the act of merely observing an experiment changes its outcome. But in the case of Clayton Patterson, ’76 BEd, the catalytic effect his observations have had on society is a matter of certainty, not speculation. …
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/2000-12-01_rooke.html

[1999]Clayton Patterson, Lens on the Lower East Side by Colin Moynihan. — It was a warm spring night, and Clayton Patterson was drinking a beer in his storefront office and art gallery on Essex Street when the telephone rang. …
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/1999-08-08_moynihan.html

[1998]HOMMAGE to Clayton Patterson by Boris Lurie. — Everybody knows that Mr. Patterson is the mayor of the Lower East Side, in fact not just a lazy-ballot-wise elected mayor, but a History-appointed Führer. When he walks the streets …
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/1998-07-01_lurie.html

[1988]Man Jailed for Refusing To Give Up Melee Tape by Constance L. Hays. — Defying a court order and disdaining professional legal help, a Manhattan artist refused again yesterday to surrender his videotape of police officers and demonstrators clashing in Tompkins Square Park and was jailed for contempt.
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/1988-09-07_hays.html

[1988]Artist Defends Refusal to Give Up Melee Tape by Howard W. French. — When Clayton Patterson, a 40-year-old East Village video artist and hat maker, ventured out shortly before midnight to tape a music act, he had no idea he would end up in the vortex of a storm over police brutality in New York City. .....
reference > http://patterson.no-art.info/press/1988-09-04_french.html

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for more press reviews see
SHOW: PHOTOGRAPHS by Clayton Patterson, Gallery Kinz, Tillou and Feigen, New York, 2007
BOOK: RESISTANCE, New York, 2007
BOOK: CAPTURED - A Lower Eastside Film and Video History, New York, 2005