Patricia Canney
Patricia Canney is a Minneapolis artist. She
graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Studio Art.
After spending 2 yrs in the Peace Corps in West Africa she returned to
Minneapolis to work in television graphics, advertising and graphic
design.
She began working in watercolor and travelled in Brittany to paint
for several annual trips. She took her first workshop in oil from Kim
English in 1999. Since then she has taken additional workshops from Kim
English as well as Peggi Kroll Roberts, Cheri Christensen, Carol Marine,
Anne Blair Brown and Milt Kobayashi.
She paints the places and people from her own world and experience.
Her parents owned a small town cafe in northern Minnesota. Those
restaurant tables, chairs and kitchens evoke personal memories, but they
are also a part of everyone’s world and memory.
The garment paintings grew from images of store fronts, tailor back
rooms, dressmakers’ studios, theater costume shop. Those images were
also a part of childhood. Her grandmother worked as a tailor in an
old-fashioned men’s clothing store, so the distinctive smell of a steam
iron on wool still remain.
Patty has traveled and painted in the US and in Europe. She teaches a
painting workshop in the Hill Country of Texas at Wenmohs Ranch.
Her studio is open for the annual May open studio weekend in NE Mpls –
“Art-A-Whirl” and monthly for Second Saturdays in the California Bldg.
in the NE Minneapolis Arts District.
She is a member of the Paintings Curatorial Council at the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts and is currently the Program Committee
Co-Chair.
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