The artist and folk historian Clayton Patterson has lived in the same storefront home on the Lower East Side for four decades. “Looking out on the street is like being in an aquarium,” he said. See images from his vast archive of photographs:
, Taylor Mead, Quentin Crisp, and Dash Snow. Patterson transformed the front window of the space into a “Hall of Fame,” featuring a weekly selection of portraits from his series “Wall of Fame,” in which subjects, most of them neighborhood residents, posed for him in front of the gallery’s graffiti-covered front door.The artist Butch Morris.
Essex Street gave Patterson a foothold in the booming eighties art market. But he was turned off by the scene. “It was about competition: making money, being at the Odeon, eating at Mr. Chow’s—being the strongest bull in the pen,” he told me. What he did instead was build a career as the neighborhood’s most dogged archivist.
Patterson’s video and photography work has been displayed hundreds of times in New York City and beyond. Some of his images are currently installed outdoors as part of the city’s Photoville Festival. But Patterson resists labelling himself a photographer, because his camera is ultimately just one tool behind his decades-long project of preservation. He told me, “My art is not the individual pieces. It’s about the large vision: survival, being and continuing to be creative.
A police officer photographs Patterson for fun, in the early nineties. Rik Little, of the TV series “The Church of Shooting Yourself,” is seen in the background.
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