Patricia Beth Durr (1939- )
"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