Brose Partington | |
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Born | 1979 |
Education | Herron School of Art & Design |
Known for | Kinetic Sculpture |
Notable work | Harvesting Knowledge, Entangled, The Tide |
Awards | Efroymson Fellowship, Arts Council of Indianapolis |
Website | http://www.brosepartington.com/ |
Brose Partington is an Indianapolis-based kinetic sculptor. He graduated from Cathedral High School in 1998 and earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Herron School of Art & Design in 2004. His artworks have been shown in numerous cities across the United States including New York, Chicago, Miami, Indianapolis, and Los Angeles; in European galleries, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Partington's work is inspired by "movements around us and the patterns those movements create."[1] In Indianapolis, Partington's sculptures have been exhibited at the Harrison Center for the Arts, Primary Colours, and Flux Space in group exhibitions. He has permanent installations at the Indianapolis Art Center ARTSPARK (Dawnsong)[2] and Herron School of Art and Design on the IUPUI campus (Entangled).
His work has been featured in solo exhibitions, including; Urban Manipulations at Flux Space in 2006; Systematic Sales at Dam Stuhltrager Gallery[3] in 2008; and Trophy, in collaboration with James Darr, at the Erstwhile Gallery in 2008.
Partington's installation art was featured in the 2006 ScopeMiami;[4] the 2007 ARTropolis Bridge Art Fair, Chicago;[5] the 2007 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Indio, California; and the Scope Art Show in Lincoln Center, New York in 2007.[6] The artist has enjoyed international art fair exposure at the Contemporary Istanbul in 2007;[7] Scope Basel,[8] Switzerland; and the Shanghai International Gallery Exhibition of Media Art, eArts Beyond,[9] in 2009. In 2008 Partington's work was featured at The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia exhibition Cyberfest.[10]
iMOCA, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, featured Partington's installation art in December 2009. He was commissioned to create an artwork, "Harvesting Knowledge," for The Public Collection, a project in Indianapolis.[11]
Partington has been mentioned in notable cultural blogs[12] and featured on National Public Radio's The Art of the Matter[13] and in Nuvo Newsweekly.[14] In 2007 he was awarded a $20,000 Efroymson Contemporary Art Fellowship[15] from the Efroymson Family Fund.[16]
Brose Partington is represented by Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery [17] in Brooklyn, New York and in Berlin, Germany.