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Patricia Beth Durr (1939- )

Patricia Beth Durr (1939- )

C$200.00Price

"Yellow Tree" 1982

Oil and mixed Media

3" x 5" Image

10" x 10" Frame

Provenance: Purchased from Wells Gallery, Ottawa; Private collection Burlington

 

  • Biography

    “My artworks document detritus of urban-industrial environments, which is overwhelming our natural environment.  This waste, transformed by human intervention, of no artistic prestige, carries the history of its usage..”- Pat Durr

    Pat Durr was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1939 and received her Bachelor of Arts in Education (Honours) from the University of Kansas in 1961.  She went on to do post-graduate studies at the University of Southampton, England for one year before settling in Ottawa, Ontario.   For the past forty years, she has worked in drawing, painting and installation to video.

    Durr is the recipient of numerous National awards and grants, as well as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, and has been a visiting artist at universities, colleges and art schools across Canada and the United States.  She has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally; In 2012 the OAG presented Persistence of Chaos, a retrospective of her art.

    Her works are found in public, private, and corporate collections throughout Canada, Cuba, the United States, Israel, Australia and England. Durr lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

    Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections:
    Algonquin College Fine Arts Collection Biogen, Inc. Cambrdidge, MA.
    USA Business Development Bank of Canada
    Canada Capital Congress Centre Canada Council Art Bank Canderel
    Carleton University Art Gallery City of Ottawa Fine Art Collection
    Claridge Collection
    Corel Systems Corporation
    Corporation of the City of Ottawa Department of Foreign Affairs Art Collection EMC Corporation, Boston, USA Esso Resources, Calgary
    Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, New York, NY
    Goodwin Procter, New York, NY
    Lantic Sugar Ltd.
    Minto Construction Ltd.National Archives of Canada Nickle Art Gallery, University of Calgary Nortel
    OCTranspo/Regonial Munc. Ottawa-Carleton Ontario Ministry of Government Services Ottawa Art Gallery Petro Canada
    RMOC Fine Arts Collection Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery Royal Trust Corporation
    Sun Life
    Swiss Bank Corporation
    The Royal Bank of Canada
    Toronto Dominion Bank
    University of Kansas Fine Art Collection
    University of Toronto Art Centre Art Gallery
    University of Winnipeg

    Selected Solo Shows:
    2015 To All Things There is a Season, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, ON

    2012 Persistence of Chaos: Pat Durr, Ottawa Art Gallery, ON

    2005 Contemporary Artists Center, Soda Pop Resource Room, North Adams, Ma USA

    2004 Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, Ontario

    2003 Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut USA Sodaculture, Gallery 101, Ottawa

    2002 Galerie St. Laurent & Hill, Ottawa, Canada

    2000 Edward Day Gallery, Toronto

    1999 University of Winnipeg, Manitoba

    1998 Karsh Masson Public Art Gallery, City of Ottawa, Ontario

    1997 Loading Dock Gallery, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Mass. USA Maison de la culture de Gatineau, Quebec

    1996 The Art Gallery, Scarborough Campus, University Of Toronto, Ontario

    1994 The Library Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario

    1993 Ottawa Public Art Gallery at Arts Court, Ottawa, Ontario Centre d’exposition L’IMAGIER, Alymer, QuPbec

    1992 Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario

    1990 Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste-Marie, Ontario

    1989 Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I.

    1987 Ottawa School of Art

    1986 Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

     

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