Patrick James Bravo
Photo by Karina Hjort
Bio
Patrick James Bravo is based in Vancouver and obtained his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2016). His works focuses primarily in areas of social practice and community engagement. Though trained in printmaking and sculpture, Bravo works with traditional labour-intensive methods, re-combining objects and environments loaded with previous meaning from art history, the street or the playground. Originally from Italy, his works have been exhibited in Raw-Spectrum at Club 560 Seymour; Art Revolution graffiti exhibition in Concourse gallery, Emily Carr University and Colour G - a Tent work – at the 2014 International Vancouver Folk Music Festival.
Statement
My challenge is for people to observe and interact with my art. I want people to become aware of their own participation in the process of creating meaning from the images and feelings they encounter within the works.
Art and life merge together in my work, whether created for the walls of a gallery, or made for a park or the streets. I aim to engage playfully with viewers and strangers in an attempt to interrupt routines, or to simply make them smile. My work is colourful and whimsical, and strives to provide each viewer with a “moment” to recollect childhood memories or gleeful emotions from a period in life that was more about having fun. I strive to portray childlike perspectives and to spotlight moments of the past, a tactic governed by play and unconventional experience. I use pattern, colour and juxtaposition to make work that has a sense of fun and engage emotions disrupting for a short time our customized social lives, even if darker connections surface.
Solo Exhibitions
First Kiss CMYKtoRGB. Pop Up Gallery. Vancouver, BC. 2015
HSL CMYKtoRGB. Pop Up Gallery. Vancouver, BC. 2014
Reborn. Library Window Gallery. Vancouver, BC. 2013
CMYKtoRGB. Pop Up Gallery. Auckland, NZ. 2012
CMYKtoRGB. Pop Up Gallery. Melbourne, AU. 2011
Group Exhibitions
Fresh Paint / New Construction. 2Art Mûr. Montreal, QC 2016
Sculptures. 221 E. Georgia St. Vancouver, BC. 2016
The Show. ECUAD. Vancouver, BC. 2016
Playground. Ayden Gallery. Vancouver, BC. 2015
XYZ. Ranger Station Gallery. Harrison Hot Springs, BC. 2015
Print: Crossing Pathways. Concourse Gallery. Vancouver, BC. 2015
Art Revolution. (Curated by Benji Staempfli) Concourse Gallery. Vancouver, BC. 2014
Spectrum. (Raw Artists Vancouver) FiveSixty Gallery. Vancouver, BC. 2014
Foundation Show. Concourse Gallery. Vancouver, BC. 2013
CMYKtoRGB. Pop Up Gallery. Melbourne, AU. 2011
Installation Work
Hold On. ECUAD Foyer. Vancouver, BC. 2016
Colour G. Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Vancouver, BC. 2014
Fountain Of Youth. Granville Loop Park. Vancouver, BC. 2014
Micro Colour Sound. CMYKtoRGB Pop Up Gallery. (Collaboration with Graeme Wilson) Vancouver, BC. 2013
Bondage. Stanley Park. (Collaboration with Björn Krogvig) Vancouver, BC. 2013
Miss E. Granville Island. Vancouver, BC. 2013
Professional Experiences
Artist talk and conversation: Ruth Beer, with Patrick James Bravo and Justin Muir Malaspina Printmakers. Vancouver, BC. 2016
Community Engagement Representative. Student Union of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Vancouver, BC. 2016
Faculty of Visual Arts and Material Practice Representative. Student Union of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Vancouver, BC. 2016
Community Connection Through Social Practice: Finding a Match Museum of Contemporary Craft. Portland, OR. 2015
Awards
Nominated for BMO First Art Competition. 2016
Media & Publications
Visual Art Exhibit: Ranger Station Art Gallery. Ranger Station Gallery. Harrison Festival. Harrison Hot Springs, BC. 2015
Community Connection Through Social Practice: Finding a Match.Museum of Contemporary Craft. Portland, OR. 2015
Woo. Spring Issue. Woo Publication. Vancouver, BC. 2015
Woo. Winter Issue. Woo Publication. Vancouver, BC. 2015
Emily Carr sale lives up to promise. Rebecca Blissett. The Vancouver Courier. Vancouver, BC. 2014
Portrait of an artist: Patrick James Bravo. Michelle Martin. The Georgia Straight. Vancouver, BC. 2014
35 hot Vancouver artists to look out for. Vancity Buzz Staff. Vancouver, BC. 2014
Patrick James Bravo presented by Raw: Vancouver. Raw Artist Media. Vancouver, BC. 2014
Woo. Fall Issue. Woo Publication. Vancouver, BC. 2013
For a complete version of Patrick James Bravo's CV, please enquire at: pjb[at]cmyktorgb.com