Cobourg, ON,
Pat has studied drawing and painting in Montreal at the School of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, ...
About the artist
Joined In 2010
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About the artist
Joined In 2010
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Pat has studied drawing and painting in Montreal at the School of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, at McGill University, and at Concordia University School of Art. She has also studied at Toronto's Three Schools of Art and Toronto School of Art, and at the Haliburton School of the Arts. Pat is a member of the Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, the Colborne Society of Artists, and the Pontiac Artists' Association in Quebec, and has held a position on the Arts Council of Northumberland since 2007. Pat's work has been accepted into numerous juried shows, and she has been offered several curated solo shows. She received an Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant in 2010, and has won local, national, and international awards.
Pat Stanley uses two distinctly different perspectives to render aspects of her ongoing theme: the uneasy coexistence of the built environment with the natural world. Her Intersection series presents familiar symbols of our urban culture - concrete structures in Toronto's landscape - transformed by future environmental impact into images in an album of an extinct civilization. The perspective is close-up and intimate, the structures vulnerable and tenuous, yet the viewer senses the presence of arche...
Awards
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2010
Honorable Mention, Uxbridge 14th Annual Juried Art Show, Uxbridge, 2010
3rd Place, 26th Annual Competition, The Artists Magazine, 2009
Finalist, 26th Annual Competition, The Artists Magazine, 2009
Best Painting, 28th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, 2008
Finalist, Canadian Brushstroke Magazine’s Landscape Competition, 2007
Selected Exhibitions
“Intersection” solo show, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto ON, Nov 2010
“Fault Lines solo show, Art Gallery of Northumberland/Paul Kane Gallery, Cobourg ON, Nov 2009
“Excel”, Station Gallery Annual Members’ Juried Art Exhibition, Whitby ON, 2009
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, 29th, 28th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts, Bowmanville ON, 2009/8
Art Gallery of Northumberland Annual Juried Exhibitions, Cobourg ON, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005
The Artist Project, Toronto ON, 2011, 2010
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto ON, 2010
Toronto Art Expo, Toronto ON, 2009, 2008
“Fresh”, Station Gallery Annual Members’ Juried Art Exhibition, Whitby ON, 2008
“Breaking Ground”, “Paint”, “Mixed Messages”, “The Momentum Exhibition”, Haliburton School of t...
Crossroad, solo show at The Colborne Art Gallery in Colborne, ON, April 23 - May 29, 2011. www.thecolborneartgallery.ca.
Opening reception April 23 from 2 - 4 pm