Artist Info
Patricia Dimarcello
Before she began studying visual arts in 1990, Patricia DiMarcello worked with handicapped adults in a training centre, created and revised interior house plan layouts and blueprints, performed layout and paste-up work for graphic design firms, owned and operated a children’s wear and gift store, and served in offices in managerial and accounting roles. She received a Diploma in Visual Arts from Grant MacEwan Community College (now MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB) in 1992 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta in 1995. She has exhibited regularly in Edmonton and surrounding area.
DiMarcello’s work uses sculpture, alternative printmaking and drawing methods and materials--including paper relief, chine collé, and rust application--to explore the quieting and meditative effects of artmaking, the agency of materials in the creative process, and the contribution of nature’s subtle transformations to a completed artwork. Her fascination with rust in particular developed early in life, during her upbringing on a Northern Alberta farm, where rusted implements were strewn in abundance. As a city dweller, she regularly visited and collected materials from metal scrapyards, as fascinated by a piece of old steel as a work of art. In the early 2000s, DiMarcello moved from Edmonton to the Wildwood area, west of Edmonton, to take advantage of a 3,600 square foot studio, out of which she makes and teaches art.
