JPW3 (b. 1981), born J. Patrick Walsh III, is a contemporary American artist whose distinctive mixed-media practice combines painting, sculpture, and installation in works that draw freely from a broad range of materials and traditions. Based in Los Angeles, JPW3 has emerged as one of the more distinctive voices within the vibrant contemporary art scene of Southern California, and his work occupies a distinctive position between the polished conventions of the traditional art object and the more improvisational sensibility of street art, assemblage, and Bay Area funk.

JPW3's works are characterized by their layered surfaces, richly worked materials, and freewheeling formal invention. Wax has become one of his signature materials, and he uses it alongside found objects, printed and drawn imagery, industrial supplies, and traditional artist's materials to build up pictures and objects that feel simultaneously ancient and contemporary. The result is a body of work that resists easy categorization, moving between painting and sculpture, between abstraction and figuration, and between the personal and the archaeological with unusual fluidity. His pictures often incorporate a sense of accumulated time, as if fragments of daily life, popular culture, and personal biography have gradually gathered into single unified surfaces.

JPW3 has exhibited widely in Los Angeles and beyond, showing his work at leading contemporary galleries and art fairs. He has been associated with the Night Gallery in Los Angeles and has attracted the attention of collectors interested in the intersection of contemporary painting with the materially rich traditions of assemblage and mixed-media practice. His work continues to develop and to reward the sustained attention of viewers willing to slow down and follow the layered logic of his richly built surfaces.