Patricia Cronin
Born 1963, Beverly, Massachusetts
1986 BFA Rhode Island College
1988 MFA Brooklyn College CUNY, Brooklyn
1991 Skowhegan School of Art, Maine
Selected museum exhibitions: Tampa Museum of Art (2018); The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2016); Chiesa di San Gallo, Venice (2015); Musei Capitolini, Rome (2013); Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (2012); Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans (2012); Brooklyn Museum (2009); American Academy in Rome (2007); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1999); South Florida Art Center, Miami (1995)
Selected honors: National Academy of Design (2018); Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2009); Rome Prize in Visual Art, American Academy (2006); Distinguished Alumni Award, Rhode Island College (2004)
Selected public collections: Avery Library, Columbia University, New York; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Pérez Art Museum Miami; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx
Brooklyn-based sculptor Patricia Cronin uses a classical style to explore contemporary feminist themes. Aphrodite Reimagined is a maquette of a monumental sculpture of the same title in the collection of the Tampa Museum of Art. Inspired by a fragment of marble Roman figure from the museum’s collection from the 1st century AD, Cronin re-created the figure in cold cast marble and reconstituted the figure’s missing features in a pale aquamarine resin. The result is a sculpture that appears simultaneously ancient and contemporary, fragmented and whole.