In 2011, Patrick Fagerberg was at the height of his career as a successful defense attorney in Austin, Texas. One evening he attended a concert at a popular music venue, during which a 400-pound camera boom collapsed & struck him on the head. The accident injured his brain’s left hemisphere, permanently altering his control of language, and triggering a period of intense depression. Fagerberg discovered painting in an art therapy class & the impulse toward artistic expression soon dominated his life. The injury brought about an exceptional case of “savant syndrome,” in which his right brain developed an island of genius allowing him to excel as a painter.

Fagerberg’s work explores nature on a cosmic scale, evoking the transcendent in the tradition of other abstract painters such as Mark Rothko and Clifford Still. Organic & expansive, Fagerberg’s paintings thrust the viewer into the cosmos. Largely self-taught over an intense period of study, Fagerberg invites the viewer to contemplate the remarkable relations between science, art, & humanity’s different modes of creating meaning.