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Born in
Kitchener, Ontario, Patricia Brennan is a graduate of the Ontario College of
Art, who has studied sculpture in Rome and New York City, On returning from
New York in 1982, she developed a system which resulted in a mixed media
show, in part, inspired by the I Ching, called `Blueprint Valleysweep'. It
was seen at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in 1983. This work explored
figure/landscape collages with photosilkscreen printed directly onto white
porcelain...resembling a `monumental silicon chip'. During the 80's and
90's, the same approach was used to portray thematic mythologizing of
friends and acquaintances in the miniature diorama series, `Dancing Cow in
St. Petersburg'. and the theatrical sculpture installation, `Guardians &
Arkangels From Earth". Many of the models were from the world of dance. The
project won an Arts Abroad Grant from the Ontario Ministry of Culture &
Communications to tour Russia in 1991. In 1993, the exhibition was shown at
the Grimsby Art Gallery and at Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto, where it was
seen by well-known Canadian author, Timothy Findley. Findley later selected
a portrait sculpture from the `Guardian Series', for the Toronto Arts
Council Protege Award. The Arkangel Project is at present being developed
into a narrative for CD ROM production, to be produced by Mexican and
Canadian artists, under the sponsorship of NAFAA (North American Free
Artists Association). Arkangels From Earth was featured in an exhibition at
the Art Gallery of Algoma for the 1996 Algoma Fall Festival. Patricia
collaborated with dancer/musicians from Toronto/Algoma and native
traditional Ojibwe dancers to create a community workshop production of a
new myth, Arkangel Drum Dance. The story and choreography was inspired from
her Arkangel narratives and the discovery of a Great Lakes Dragon in the
Agawa Canyon pictographs.
From 1991 to 1994, Patricia served as Vice-President of the Sculptor's Society of Canada, and Director of the SSC Gallery, helping to initiate the current outreach of sculptors at the First Canadian Place SSC Gallery in Toronto, now called the Canadian Sculpture Gallery. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: SOLO
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