Patrick Costello

Merch droppppp! Let the world know your truth with this beautiful design by @_patrickcostello . These shirts are a FUNDRAISER for The Van Gogh Shogh's run in Edinburgh. All hand-printed by actual clowns in West Philadelphia. Get your wardrobe ready for Hot Clown Summer. Link to purchase in bio (or on my website ). #clown #clowncore

NoTeS fRoM tHe EnSeMbLe: This Sunday, December 14th, I’m singing with Belly Chorus, a project led by the inimitable @minivansoundsystem . This is a singing cult and you’ll regret it if you don’t come bask in our angelic voices. Enya, anyone? Tickets at link in bio. You should probably join us for next season — the Kool-Aid is delish. Also this Sunday, I’m going to be selling some prints and things in Red Hook, at @smallchangemarket , a delightful annual event that raises funds for mutual aid efforts and also supports artists like your boy! If you know what’s good, you’ll come through! File under essential holiday time experiences that warm the cockles of your big fat heart. Also, In November, I went on tour with @ramshackleenterprises , to do Nature Drag with folks in Maine! I taught the audience a round about compost, Eli shared their wild magic, and @dee_dee_sea and Diane made some glorious sounds throughout the whole thing. Lastly, in October, along with our amazing cohort, I showed some old and new work at @lmcc_nyc ’s Arts Center Residency Open Studios. Pics of me by the one and only @popularandsuccessful Find the best weirdos and do things together!

Join me and the rest of this stellar cohort tomorrow, September 27th, 12pm - 5pm for @lmcc_nyc Open Studios! The last one of the season! I’ll be showing some in-progress work, but mostly I’ll be there chatting up all the cuties… will you be one of them?😘 LMCC Resident Artists: Destinie Adélakun | stinieadelakun.com / @destinieadelakun Daphne Arthur | / @daphnearthurart Jessica Bardsley | / @jessicabardsley_ Noga Cohen | / @nogie_ Patrick Costello | / @_patrickcostello Jing Dong | @_jingdong Sonja John | / @sonja__jay Lola Lefrançois | / @lola.m.lefrancois Libby Mislan | / @lunaaani Raelle Myrick-Hodges | @raelleen Layla Nk | / @violetmenace Curious Orange / Claire Fleury | / @clairefleurynyc Carlos Rigau | / @carlosrigau Romilly Rinck | @rfflowerr Andreia Santana | / @andreiaapsantana Laura Chipley and Samara Smith | / Walker Tufts | / @jw4lker Lu | https://studiolu.art/ / @lu_xdyz Jaleeca Yancy | / @jry_designs

Oops! Here I was doing summer; I neglected this digital space! So here I am now, just in case you’ve forgotten my face! The first and last pics find me at the beach with some gays! And the second is from the Schweinfurth in Auburn, where I showed with some baes! The third is a drawing I made for a gallery in that fine place! I recreated a fraught object from history, as is sometimes the case — A coverlet by incarcerated weavers at Auburn’s famed prison in 1838! The fourth’s a performance where words, grief, objects, and memory conflate. The fifth’s in a garden, where we did some gay printmaking for Pride! Photos 6 through 10 are from Moth Ball in Athens (make sure to check out that ride)! 11’s from the Drag March, a Pride tradition I love to the core! And 12 is from Privy Privy! Who wants ice cream! Please give us some more! 13’s from the ferry to Governors Island; my beloved LMCC studio is nigh! 14’s from Stone Quarry, because golly! *Big sigh* Oh! We also did Moth Ball in Ithaca, at the Soil Factory, of course! That’s photos 15 and 16 — love to Ash! What a force! 17 through 19 are from Fresh Ground Pepper’s residency in PA! Where I made things and slept in an old horse stall, neigh neigh! I’m grateful for this summer, especially in times bleak as these! This world is so cruel so GIVE YOUR FRIENDS A BIG SQUEEZE! Pics 1 and 20: @popularandsuccessful Pic 3: Thanks @s.lammer , Lizzie, @polinabertou , and @jessililili for drawing assistance!

In its first Ithaca presentation MOTHBALL at The Soil Factory was just a taste, but still, so fun. Patrick and I introduced the event. A performance by wunderkind Ursula Torop enchanted folks with a song she learned for the clarinet titled ‘Chrysalis’ which she selected for the occasion (note her wings in the picture). I put up two mothing stations: one inside the Marshy Garden, the other on the edge of the lawn near the trees lining the creek to lure organisms from different habitats. Early arrivals included many leafhoppers, a slim waisted wasp mimic fly, a honey bee past its bedtime, water beetles, mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies and more. Mothing is a late night activity and just as the sheets started to buzz, and Brandon was mid-tour, highlighting features of our garden with a spotlight, the sky opened up and the electronics needed to be pulled. Sad! However, it was a hot 10-15 minute preview of what promised to be great mothing. Friends grabbed the food and drinks, power cords, batteries and lights and the party moved inside. Later on I went walking in the garden with Rachel and we saw a dazzling display of moths pollinating the Bee Balm flowers in rain. We talk about moths being important (essential!) pollinators but it was a gift to see the activity at almost daytime bee levels! @soilfactory_air @_patrickcostello @busybeebrandon @marshygarden_bzzzzz

In case you like ice cream or having fun, Privy Privy is in NYC all month at 279 Broome Street! If you missed it last summer, this is your chance to experience some weird titillation and bask in the aural inheritance of our soundtrack! We digitized an entire collection of 60 DJ mixtapes made between 1977 and 1996 specially for this iteration of the project! Come if you haven’t, come again if you have, come because it’s Pride Month, come because who doesn’t like coming! Details at www.privyprivy.vip 🍦🌈🍦🤤💖🍦🕳️🌈🍦 @donnaoblongata @privyprivy.vip

🍃 The beauty of Stone Quarry Art Park resides in change ⁠🍂⁠ ⁠ 2023 Visiting Artist @_patrickcostello ‘s AND EAT IT TOO is a fully composting sculpture. Recorded by a wildlife camera that swings and sways with changing weather conditions, enjoy a glance of the work’s transformation on the grounds. ⁠ ⁠ What growth and bloom will AND EAT IT TOO bring this year?⁠⁠

We are pleased to announce a trio of solo exhibitions by artists Ellery Bryan, Patrick Costello, and Patrick McGuan in collaboration with @stonequarryartpark and @schweinfurthart ⁠ ⁠ This collaboration grew out of our organizations’ shared commitment to broadening public access to the arts and increasing opportunities for artists in our region and from around the world.⁠ ⁠ Each of these exhibiting artists has recently made work with and amidst Stone Quarry’s 140-acre grounds. ⁠ ⁠ 🌱 Ellery Bryan (@magic.h0ur ) is currently developing Fossil Memory, a film that traces history and memory through geology and astrometry. ⁠ ⁠ 🌱 Patrick Costello’s (@_patrickcostello ) large-scale drawing and site-specific performance, After Flowers, takes inspiration from a Jacquard woven coverlet, produced in 1838 by the incarcerated weavers at Auburn State Prison.⁠ ⁠ 🌱 Patrick McGuan’s new work, Songs from the Sky, employs a meadow, text, and multimedia sculpture to explore the contradictions in how we create meaning.⁠ ⁠ Through this collaborative partnership, the Schweinfurth invites these three artists, whose diverse aesthetic approaches share a common vein of intellectual inquiry with respect to the ways art, landscape, and natures both wild and cultivated interact, to extend their landscape-driven explorations into the gallery setting.⁠ ⁠ 🪴 Saturday, May 31⁠ 🪴 3-4 PM: Panel discussion featuring the artists and two ecologists⁠ 🪴 4 PM: site-specific performance by Patrick Costello⁠ 🪴 4-6 PM: Opening reception of exhibitions⁠ ⁠ 📍 Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St, Auburn, NY⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

✨I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected for LMCC’s 2025 Arts Center Residency. For the next 8 months, I’ll be working at @LMCC_NYC ’s Arts Center at Governors Island alongside a cohort of 18 other artists/collaboratives. 🌿LMCC’s 2025 Arts Center Residency offers NYC-based multidisciplinary artists a long-term space for experimentation, development, and dialogue with fellow residents. Based on Governors Island, the residency supports artists whose practices explore climate justice, the environment, sustainability, and urban ecology. Destinie Adélakun | stinieadelakun.com / @destinieadelakun Daphne Arthur | / @daphnearthurart Jessica Bardsley | / @jessicabardsley_ Noga Cohen | / @nogie_ Patrick Costello | / @_patrickcostello Jing Dong | @_jingdong Sonja John | / @sonja__jay Lola Lefrançois | / @lola.m.lefrancois Libby Mislan | / @lunaaani Raelle Myrick-Hodges | @raelleen Layla Nk | / @violetmenace Curious Orange / Claire Fleury | / @curious_orange_everywhere Carlos Rigau | / @carlosrigau Romilly Rinck | @rfflowerr Andreia Santana | / @andreiaapsantana Laura Chipley and Samara Smith | / Walker Tufts | / @jw4lker Lu | https://studiolu.art/ / @lu_xdyz Jaleeca Yancy | / @jry_designs #LMCC #LMCCArtsCenter #ArtsCenterResidency #GovernorsIsland #artresidency #residency #studio #studiospace #artiststudio #artistspace #artist #art #artisticpractice #residencyprogram #newyorkcity #NYC #nycart #nycartist #nycculture #Lowermanhattan #Manhattan

The kind of social network I actually like being a part of is one that involves people making weird things, growing plants, and talking to one another in the physical world. A web of links between blue skies, tweeting birds, tangled reels of garden twine, and true freaks (com)posting wild visions of the future — sharing glimpses of a world we’re actively cultivating. So it was really inspiring (and deeply grounding) to talk on a panel about art and horticulture at this year’s Plant-o-Rama with the brilliant @jean.shin and @lily_kwong ! Thanks to @sciparis for moderating, @brooklynbotanic for hosting, and @metrohortnyc for making such a fecund and heartening event happen every year. I’m so stoked I get to be a part of the NYC horticulture community — let’s hear it for the plant nerds!

We are THRILLED to present “Privy, Privy” by Donna Oblongata @donnaoblongata & Patrick Costello @_patrickcostello at this year’s Miami Beach Fair | December 4-8! Come explore it with us at SATELLITE this Art Basel! Artist Statement Below! Ticket Link in Bio #notbasel Privy Privy, by artists Donna Oblongata and Patrick Costello, is an immersive installation that simulates a public restroom in a queer nightclub. Each stall of the installation features a glory hole, through which comes an actual human hand holding an ice cream cone. Visitors may get on their knees and indulge in this anonymously proffered treat, or simply watch others enjoy themselves. For those who choose to indulge, it’s an unexpected encounter with a stranger, resulting in a moment of sweetness.

I wrote a little essay about gardening and artmaking, and it’s up on the World Wide Web! Big thanks to @ellieshechet and @kirkgordo for your editing prowess! I’m so stoked to share this piece through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden blog! Link in bio!