Bio: Patrick Berran lives and works in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Recent solo exhibitions include Chapter NY, New York City, NY, White Columns, Hunter Whitfield, London UK, and Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA. Recent group exhibitions include The American Academy of Arts and Letters New York, NY, Southampton Art Center, the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, VT, Rod Bianco, Oslo; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis; and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York. Patrick has completed artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center Johnson, VT, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, NY, Dial House in Essex, United Kingdom as well as the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail and his work has been featured in Bomb Magazine, New American Painters, and Architectural Digest. In 2012 Berran was named one of Modern Painters’ 100 Artists to Watch. Patrick Berran’s work is in numerous private and public collections;  Hall Art Foundation, Fidelity, Capital One and Morgan Stanley among others. Patrick is represented by CHAPTER NY in New York City.

Burn Blue Press:

Style Weekly’s article

Art Currently’s write-up and interview

Press Release: Foyer is excited to present Burn Blue, an exhibition of new works by Patrick Berran, opening September 5th from 5:00-9:00pm at 16 W Broad street. Burn Blue marks a continuation of Berran’s multi-media painting practice which incorporates drawing, transfer processes and collage. In this new body of work, the hand is evident not only in the drawn or painted line but in the physicality of the surfaces; revealing collage’s ability to keep a record of actions such as cutting and building. Drawing on the history of modern painting, two different and opposed organizational structures emerge: that of the grid vs organic abstraction. Tension both within and between the paintings draws the viewer into an experience of varying degrees of resolution. All while Berran uses a completely new color palette; one that borders on the effusive if not purely celebratory. This dynamism is bolstered by his inclusion of large-scale painting for the first time in almost a decade. As a flame burning blue indicates pure combustion where nothing is wasted, Burn Blue chronicles a striving towards distillation in art and a full-hearted embrace of life.