Brose Partington

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Brose Partington
Born1979
Indianapolis
Education Herron School of Art & Design
Known forKinetic Sculpture
Notable workHarvesting Knowledge, Entangled, The Tide
AwardsEfroymson 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.

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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.

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References

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