Charlie Oscar Patterson produces multiple bodies of work that embrace the history of modernist painting; they are a continuation and combination of minimalism and abstraction that merge sculpture with painting. Building up many layers of dense oil paint, Patterson cleverly focuses on the use of a single-color tone to emphasize the work's surface as well as its highlights and shadows - the canvas brought to life as you move around the artwork and the light changes. This focus combination of color and shape speaks to his concern with emphasizing the physical presence of the artwork itself, rather than an expression of the artist's voice - his monochrome pieces are a great example of this.