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Rosalee Acrylic on Plexiglas 16 x 16

Artist Biography:

Patti Brady received her B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the Working Artist Program Director for Golden Artist Colors, and has lectured and taught on the use of acrylics at numerous universities. Brady has trained and worked with 40 national and international artists for the Golden Working Artist Program in the US, Canada, Korea, France, Austria, Spain, Mexico, the Netherlands, Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. As an active member in the community, Brady was Chair of the Greenville Open Studios project for 2002-2005 and was awarded the Distinguished Volunteer to Influence the Visual Arts for her work in this community effort.

Brady’s paintings, prints, and hand painted books have been exhibited nationally at the Brand Library, Glendale, Ca., Arch Gallery, Chicago, Ill., Mills College, Oakland and U.C. Berkeley, Ca. In 1994, her paintings were reviewed in the New York Times. She was awarded a Silver Award in the California Discovery Project in 1995 and is the recipient of the South Carolina Arts Commission Fellowship Award for 2006.

She has had solo exhibitions at Pelter Gallery in Greenville, SC and Lander College in SC, and a two person exhibit at Columbia College in Columbia, SC. Other exhibitions include International Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC, Greenville County Museum, Furman University, and the Governor's School, Greenville SC.

Patti Brady

Greenville

Patti Brady’s work is represented at:
Hodges Taylor, Charlotte, NC, and
Pelter Gallery, Greenville, SC

About the Work:

I am continually fascinated by the materiality of paint, the thickness, the texture, the drip, the transparency, the overlap, the overlay and evocative color. These images are heavily influenced by my explorations into landscape painting and a physical move to a Southern landscape. A certain claustrophobic explosion of plant life, molecules of air, humidity, and insects invaded a western sense of space.

These images are an expression of the minutia of botany, containers, irritations, voids, veils, growth, decay, seeds, and about what intrudes into, onto these spaces. Patterning, repeating images, fabric, and ornamentation, all derived from plant life are interwoven. Quilting is collage..

The contrast between the actual materiality of paint, thick and textural, drips, mistakes, stains, happenstance, juxtaposed with a more controlled painterly drawing process are intriguing to me.