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818 W Lake Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55408 Reception Saturday, August 21, 2021, 4 – 7 p.m.
All Images are Courtesy of the Artist and Douglas Flanders & Associates – Copyright 2021 © Donna Bruni Design by Syril McNally, syrilmcnally.com
Printing by Smartpress, Inc, Chanhassen, Minnesota
Fourth of July, 2021 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1 1/2 in 4
ARTIST NOTES My work is influenced by the ever-present movement of nature, the paradigm we live in. This recent body of work, Summer Solstice Series, marks the return of light, as the world moved through many months and seasons of COVID isolation and uncertainty. The paintings explore the idea of vertical landscape, earth’s perpetual movement and changing perspectives, through use of light, color, shapes and forms on canvas. The Summer Solstice, celebrated by ancient cultures is an important date in the sun’s cycle, used to create calendars and monuments such as Stonehenge. It is the longest day of the year, representing the continual journey we travel from darkness to light, as the sun reaches its most northern position in the sky. NEW PAINTINGS
WORKS ON PAPER
2021
Summer Solstice Series Summer Solstice Axis 2 Midpoint Above the Clouds Marina Artists Point At Dawn Fourth of July Unmasking
Summer 2021 – North Shore Inspired by northern landscape, vast beauty of Lake Superior and Superior National Forest.
Beach Stones Series Clear, cool color of a Lake Superior day, stones reflecting light, dancing on water.
2020 Coastline Summer; Colors of sea and sunlight, looking at borders and edges.
Spring 2021 – Dark Sea Exploring the darkness, storm cloud patterns on water. Spring 2021 – Wild Horse The Pandemic.
OLDER PAINTINGS 2018 Radiant City Inspired by walking through ancient ruins near the Colosseum in the city of eternal light, Rome, Italy.
Winds of Change Series Autumn; Winds of change, politics, unrest, warning of Winter months coming.
2019
Storm Watch Fall; Hurricane season, weather map metaphor for political turmoil, environmental issues, layered landscape.
Walking on Water Series Winter; Listening, waiting, emptiness, fullness, movement, stillness, restoration. 5
Walking on Water III, 2019 Series of 3, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 48 x 2 in
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Walking on Water II, 2019 Series of 3, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 48 x 2 in
Midpoint, 2021 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1 1/2 in 8
Marina, 2021 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 48 x 1 1/2 in 9
At Dawn, 2021 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 54 x 1 1/2 in 10
Artists Point, 2021 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 48 x 1 1/2 in 11
Unmasking, 2021 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 36 x 48 x 1 1/2 in
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Storm Watch, 2019 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 48 x 2 in
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Radiant City, 2018 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1 1/2 in 14
Axis II, 2021 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1 1/2 in 15
Summer Solstice, 2021 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1 1/2 in 16
Coastline, 2020 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 30 x 30 x 2 in 17
North Shore, 2021 Oil on Arches Paper, 12 x 22 in 18
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Wild Horse, 2021 Oil on Arches Paper, 17 x 22 in 20
Dark Sea, 2021 Oil on Arches Paper, 17 x 22 in 21
Winds of Change I, 2018 Series of 3, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 30 x 30 x 1 1/2 in 22
Winds of Change III, 2018 Series of 3, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 30 x 30 x 1 1/2 in 23
Beach Stones 2, 2021 Series of 3, Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 2 in
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Beach Stones 1, 2021 Beach Stones 3, 2021 Series of 3, Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 2 in 24
Series of 3, Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 2 in
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Exhibition List Above the Clouds, 2021, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 54 x 48 x 1 1/2 in / 137.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Artists Point, 2021, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 48 x 1 1/2 in / 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm At Dawn, 2021, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 54 x 1 1/2 in / 121.9 x 137.2 x 3.8 cm Angel Series 1, Series of 4 Works on Paper, 16 x 16 in / 40.6 x 40.6 cm Angel Series 2, Series of 4 Works on Paper, 16 x 16 in / 40.6 x 40.6 cm Axis II, 2021, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1 1/2 in / 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Beach Stones I, 2021, Series of 3, Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 2 in / 30.5 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Beach Stones II, 2021, Series of 3, Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 2 in / 30.5 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Beach Stones III, 2021, Series of 3, Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 2 in / 30.5 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Breathing Sorrow and Joy, 2013, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 48 in / 121.9 x 121.9 cm Coastline, 2020, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 x 2 in / 76.2 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Dark Sea, 2021, Oil on Arches Paper, 17 x 22 in / 43.2 x 55.9 cm Fourth of July, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1 1/2 in / 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Imagine, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 54 x 48 in / 137.2 x 121.9 cm Marina, 2021, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 48 x 1 1/2 in / 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Midpoint, 2021, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1 1/2 in / 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm North Shore, 2021, Oil on Arches Paper, 12 x 22 in / 30.5 x 55.9 cm Radiant City, 2018, Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1 1/2 in / 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Storm Watch, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 48 x 2 in / 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Summer Solstice, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1 1/2 in / 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Unmasking, 2021, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 36 x 48 x 1 1/2 in / 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Walking on Water II, 2019, Series of 3, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 48 x 2 in / 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Walking on Water III, 2019, Series of 3, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 48 x 2 in / 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Wild Horse, 2021, Oil on Arches Paper, 17 x 22 in / 43.2 x 55.9 cm Winds of Change I, 2018, Series of 3, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 in / 76.2 x 76.2 cm 26
Winds of Change III, 2018, Series of 3, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 in / 76.2 x 76.2 cm
Biography Donna Bruni
The compositions are based on changing urban and
American
natural environments. Daily observation of shifting light
b. Fort Dix, New Jersey
patterns, water, wind, land and sky become contextual
Lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota
elements for her landscape inspired paintings.
Donna Bruni is a Twin Cities-based painter. With broad,
Donna Bruni grew up in Yardley, Pennsylvania. She studied
richly layered planes of color she creates paintings
graphic design at Endicott College and the School of
with palpable atmospheric resonance. She states,
Visual Arts in New York City and began her career in the
Color, energy, emotion and movement are the foundation
arts as a graphic designer in New York City in the pre-
of my visual style and intuitive approach to painting.
digital age of publishing. She holds a B.A. Degree from the
I love the fluid materiality of oil paint and the process
University of Minnesota in Visual Art and Healing. With
of transforming two-dimensional surfaces into dynamic
paintings in many private art collections, Donna Bruni
layered compositions through interaction of color, form
also has artworks in law offices, hotels, financial firms and
and line. My paintings blend elements of nature with
organizations to include the Otto Bremer Foundation in
abstraction as a means to create visual poetry.
Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Notable Exhibitions 2021
Donna Bruni, Recent Paintings, Solo Exhibition,
Douglas Flanders & Associates Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2020
Ensemble: Together Again, The Painting Center, New York, New York
Visual Poetry, Donna Bruni, Juan Carlos Collada, Gardner Colby Gallery, Naples, Florida
Art in Embassies, United States State Department, Ambassador’s Exhibition, San Salvador, El Salvador
Art in Embassies, United States State Department, Ambassador’s Exhibition, Riga, Latvia
2019 – 2020 Beyond Water and Sky, Solo Exhibition, UMN Health, Mill City Clinic, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2015
Abstraction in Minneapolis, Douglas Flanders & Associates Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2014
Figuratively Speaking, Solo Exhibition, Tractorworks Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Floating to the Surface, Solo Exhibition, BMW Gallery One, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2012
Art on the Plains Biennial IX, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
Cover Image: At Dawn, 2021 Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 48 x 54 x 1 1/2 in Inside Cover: Winds of Change I, 2018 Series of 3, Oil on Custom Built Canvas, 30 x 30 x 1 1/2 in
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