EXHIBITION: Patricia Berube Paintings, Drawings, and Monoprints   DATES: September 2 – September 27, 2008 RECEPTION: Thursday September 4, 5-7 PM	ADDRESS: 511 West 25 Street, Suite 605, NYC HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday. 12 - 6 PM

SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery is pleased to present Recent Work by Patricia Berube. The artist will be exhibiting a new series of oil paintings, drawings and monoprints. Taking the human figure as a starting point, Berube’s work further investigates the dichotomy between familial relationships and the self. A mother of three working from current events, history, and personal memory, the artist explores the mixture of emotions that arise in family life. Themes of self-identity, sickness, death, love, and despair are re-occurring throughout her work. Several of her paintings further explicate the relationship of a mother and her children reflecting on the child’s innocence and ignorance of the alienation of the mother’s self. Berube’s work includes paintings, drawings, prints and hand-made books that use formal and conceptual devices while historically examining technique. In the eerie painting “Ancient Greek Doll,” the artist uses the ancient imagery of a fertility doll as a way of examining themes of procreation and motherhood. Patricia Berube lives and works in Cohasset, MA. This will be her fourth solo show in New York. SOHO20 Chelsea is now one of the oldest organizations in the U.S. created to address the under-representation of work by women in museums and galleries. For more information or visuals contact Gallery Director, Jenn Dierdorf at SOHO20 Chelsea by email: soho20@verizon.net by phone 212.367.8994.

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