http://www.patriciabrace.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2024-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/2981c161-2e7e-488b-8d46-e8dea1484b1f/Brace_Patricia_21.jpg New Page - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/2981c161-2e7e-488b-8d46-e8dea1484b1f/Brace_Patricia_21.jpg New Page - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.patriciabrace.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/61d07bde-46ad-49a4-991c-ab397c6f540b/IMG_8519.jpeg http://www.patriciabrace.com/stage daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1624371560363-63NS8K2H221YR18TXP62/image-asset.jpeg Stage Stage, 12' x 12' x 8', maple plywood, 2021 As a result of the pandemic, networked performance practices have become a critical part of my creative and teaching processes. I believe that performance art needs to align with technology art, or else risk becoming a relic of video art in the 20th century. For my exhibition at Danforth Gallery I present Stage, a modular, twelve by twelve-foot, site-specific inverse pyramid installation. Filmed via a livestream aerial camera, the structure will be filled with individual performances by myself, my peers and audience members. Exhibited in the sunken gallery floor of Danforth Gallery, Stage combines minimalism with the simultaneous isolation and infiltration of digital culture that we have experienced as a result of the novel Corona virus. Although the external structure is twelve feet square, the internal stage is four feet, rendering the gesture of performing within a confined space, or walking around the perimeter of a square, a metaphor for quarantine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1617035855582-Z2B5TKULNQYTLXOYT5X9/IMG_4038.jpeg Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462161775-9ZAZOLNJL8A2VA6YQKXP/image-asset.jpeg Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462207570-3ZQLJ72JN664ZB4SO3U4/image-asset.jpeg Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462230451-AC4SX774Y657U4N90QAZ/IMG_7471_good.JPG Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462231174-LGJH860SA7RIRMA9OZ02/IMG_7495_good.JPG Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462237731-OXKS5MTF9XKFEGS36BS3/IMG_7515_good.JPG Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462238739-B1DLYWTFVV0SOKWHKGPF/IMG_7516_good.JPG Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462244710-7FNUSM9W5OBD1UEEN4GZ/IMG_7540_good.JPG Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462245668-M8RGN8R1TR3TNFEWHJY9/IMG_7549_good.JPG Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462252163-ADORSR8FTZ0J1EVUCZS0/IMG_7582_good.JPG Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462252730-GMO0DOWSU2I88ROBP66A/IMG_7583_good.JPG Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462260744-3EAD6QYWN511TNUOIO7O/IMG_7609_good.JPG Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462262913-GK1J8ZAQLMZIT6VK15BL/IMG_7631-_best.JPG Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1619462265561-AKWMEJC1QJFT561WANAN/IMG_7718_good.JPG Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1616774616162-WC02S5N7353EUO6WIEJ0/image.jpg Stage Stage (model) , 12" x 12" x 8", baltic birch, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1616774696569-9H4CQ0GUC6GSWD2L0UXB/Brace_Stage_03.jpg Stage Stage (model) , 12" x 12" x 8", baltic birch, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1616774729359-7UEOC88NZAVX98D3QUNJ/Brace_Stage_01.jpg Stage Stage (model) , 12" x 12" x 8", baltic birch, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1617036293254-Q1VVIHA3ZEDDWDX4ZZVY/IMG_3084.jpeg Stage Stage (frame model), 12" x 12" x 8", baltic birch, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1617036288814-I77NUW1I4MF6F017UIPB/IMG_3093.jpeg Stage Stage (frame model), 12" x 12" x 8", baltic birch, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1616774735060-3YEDKBZ6HN4N2WKFO0TF/Brace_Stage_05.jpg Stage Stage (drawing), 19" x 24", graphite drawing on Bristol board, 2020 http://www.patriciabrace.com/in-search-of-the-miraculous daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1719667161781-9RX4A2IT203E9YWPG9CO/Brace_Patricia_04.jpg In Search of the Miraculous Pepper’s Ghost (Green): Totality (Bladderwort), acrylic, steel, tv, 3:44m, 2024, 48” x 48” x 48” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1724344282608-KK8J5D3AJT52NS8D1UOI/240709_134435_Probably+Joel_aeolians+%28ILCE-7RM4%29A.jpg In Search of the Miraculous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1716644895879-MHFM1DL00ILZM8JC9H1W/image-asset.jpeg In Search of the Miraculous Pepper's Ghost 1: The Perfect Human, 2024, 76"h x 20"w x 30"l, steel, acrylic, tv, 1:04m Photo credit: Joel Tsui @ArtArchival This series of Pepper's Ghost sculptures addresses how external perceptions of a situation can be different from the truth of one's reality. The dance video is appropriated from Jorgen Leth’s experimental film “The Perfect Human,” about a seemingly happy couple and their superficial accomplishments. In the end, the couple separates and the last frame is the character, who Brace performs in the video, dining alone. In this video Brace plays with gender roles through the audio saying, “There he is, the perfect human, look at him, look at what he can do…” By performing the male role in the video Brace subverts gender stereotypes and performs the satirical “Perfect Human.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1716645010200-QHQR1MD79MLY2W9M85A1/Brace_2.jpg In Search of the Miraculous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1716645011710-PPOW6997KHHQF9DPARHZ/Brace_3.jpg In Search of the Miraculous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1724344254210-0ICOAGFNPMB27PAYCAUM/240709_133938_Probably+Joel_aeolians+%28ILCE-7RM4%29B.jpg In Search of the Miraculous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1724344304614-HDDBEOXI5XLUOKEFLX25/240709_140658_Probably+Joel_aeolians+%28ILCE-7RM4%29B.jpg In Search of the Miraculous Pepper’s Ghost (Green): Totality (detail), acrylic, steel, tv, 3:44m, 2024, 48” x 48” x 48” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1724344317744-MS4DJ5NW8NVV5TOJN0TS/240709_143218_Probably+Joel_aeolians+%28ILCE-7RM4%29A-Edit.jpg In Search of the Miraculous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1719667178624-P49000QR08VXC7ZZHT76/Brace_Patricia_06.jpg In Search of the Miraculous Pepper’s Ghost (Blue): The Perfect Human, acrylic, steel, tv, 5:40m, 2024, 60” x 24” x 36” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1724344295882-6ZRTKKONHVAH33S9XSN2/240709_135937_Probably+Joel_aeolians+%28ILCE-7RM4%29.jpg In Search of the Miraculous Pepper’s Ghost (Blue): The Perfect Human (detail), acrylic, steel, tv, 5:40m, 2024, 60” x 24” x 36” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1716907588396-8Z3UJ9Y2EPP9X9ROBSEH/Brace_Patricia_2.jpg In Search of the Miraculous Maquette 1: Pepper’s Ghost: The Perfect Human, 9” h, 6” l, 3.5” w, 2024, Cell phone, welded steel, acrylic, cell phone charger, 1:04m looped Photo credit: Joel Tsui @artarchival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1716907588425-N7EMZ1DQAIRBKDKMBU45/Brace_Patricia_1.jpg In Search of the Miraculous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1724344317672-6HMZPJE5QBZZ5MA74O23/240709_142232_Probably+Joel_aeolians+%28ILCE-7RM4%29B-Edit.jpg In Search of the Miraculous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1724344320043-NWLKEXQYWSA22FTG35LE/240709_150901_Probably+Joel_aeolians+%28ILCE-7RM4%29A.jpg In Search of the Miraculous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1717261981001-EGLXG73KANT4MZJQYDKX/image-asset.jpeg In Search of the Miraculous Exhibition Poster with step-mom, Stacey Leigh Kemp http://www.patriciabrace.com/brace-2020 daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1547833131195-30HWVNYIB707GF5LU2I7/BRACE2020withtextsmaller.jpg BRACE 2020 In lieu of the current political climate Patricia Brace is using her platform as a performance artist to run for President of the United States of America in 2020. Please follow her progress at www.brace2020.com. http://www.patriciabrace.com/vegetarian-tiger daily 0.75 2025-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1696947197840-T47CQ7MYGL53LE7QW5XZ/1.jpg Vegetarian Tiger Collaboration with Milcah Bassel the6ftzine.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1604367061864-R3YPYEZ23HIG6W82PQ5V/2_red+pangolin_wuhan+grid2.jpg Vegetarian Tiger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1604367726559-YQITJX6TGG8B966YS9ZW/3_baleciaga+ghosts_bats.jpg Vegetarian Tiger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1604367084440-7GJ7JRWMZGLFP2GX6HOL/4_oasis_test5.jpg Vegetarian Tiger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1605792776364-S320IKJG2UEX05SK9TBQ/5_venice+sick+bed_sharp_FIXED.jpg Vegetarian Tiger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1604367094276-DG7JW3AOTJWY84UOC8FQ/6_mass+grave+bat_sharp2.jpg Vegetarian Tiger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1604367095497-QP0OUNG36QV333M87K89/7_panglin+comfort+2_sharp.jpg Vegetarian Tiger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1604367099821-CQBQRG5CYU8JN78AFLD5/8_tents+and+wallpaper_sharp.jpg Vegetarian Tiger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1604367112439-DI3YCRIRNA7N9TYBRIHO/9_the+scream_sharp.jpg Vegetarian Tiger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1604367127549-17WRPY0EER2K4DKLIGBN/10_twins+with+space_NEW.jpg Vegetarian Tiger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1604367863849-4YAWU1EBAQ3S27R6OUJS/Untitled-2.jpg Vegetarian Tiger http://www.patriciabrace.com/i-want-you-shes-so-heavy daily 0.75 2025-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1449002978023-OWLN22KJTT4ROZ4ZAUBV/image-asset.jpeg She's So Heavy photo credit Ruth Jampol I WANT YOU/SHE’S SO HEAVY, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ, 2016 For this ongoing work Brace cast an inverted triangle form from ready-made packaging material that weighed approximately her body weight. In this iteration she then carried the form around Newark Penn Station, singing the Beatles’ song, “I Want You”. Brace carried the inverted triangle form until it was place on top of a custom built stair-pedestal that was co-built with Stacey Kemp. This inverted pyramid form symbolizes a void, or absence and the symbolic structure has been repeated in Brace’s work Stage, and Hologram 2. This project is ongoing and Brace is currently looking for future commissioned performance opportunities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1449003104635-MJR2RYYSX2NQYNH4ZBF1/You+Are+Here+Now+%2860%29.jpeg She's So Heavy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1449003084092-GU0QDVORSC3KRADCWYBE/image-asset.jpeg She's So Heavy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1436722689235-3ROT5BRZ0058WN1Q5IC1/IMG_2360.JPG She's So Heavy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1436722689145-MQQFYQ3LWURTVOFCOIVD/IMG_2377.JPG She's So Heavy http://www.patriciabrace.com/push-pull-3 daily 0.75 2025-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1445556436916-TUZ48OLG0ZHQ1IW7EEYU/IMG_3594_BW.jpg Push/Pull 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1445556436862-45W33TISHMWS84SY2TQB/IMG_3597_BW.jpg Push/Pull 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1445556437842-9R75R60JF1G2L7CJJOYE/IMG_3603_BW.jpg Push/Pull 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1445556437996-B486TBVYMUR4PJQFQAPZ/IMG_3592_BW.jpg Push/Pull 3 http://www.patriciabrace.com/trick-endings daily 0.75 2025-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1441584983433-R9W5RFGOXJUHK5IRYPIF/IMG_2999.JPG Trick Endings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1441584997305-H42OV3BXT21F14H857BN/IMG_3401.JPG Trick Endings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1441584975675-E3F6AYJ8KPPJ672NJX27/IMG_2993.JPG Trick Endings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1441584982949-RECQ9P6J2I4NIS09I4S8/IMG_3039.JPG Trick Endings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1441584983097-JJEO4IR5CHCVC5TGPM0R/IMG_3088.JPG Trick Endings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1441584997189-JOTLG92D4TQRPN4XCILF/IMG_3128.JPG Trick Endings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1441584997258-A0NTAPY722HJ3W96N2FO/IMG_3159.JPG Trick Endings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1441585020265-CPV3N2FEPRBEE3C5XBBV/IMG_3461.JPG Trick Endings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1436721230332-MX6QWRJR251434OQONLX/pushpull2.jpg Trick Endings Model for Trick Endings, (detail), matte board, 18" x 12" x 4" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1436721230390-8D42MCSENQ0VZSASP97S/pushpull.jpg Trick Endings Model for Trick Endings, matte board, 18" x 12" x 4" http://www.patriciabrace.com/push-pull-1 daily 0.75 2025-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1444424161813-OCELIEB35E5EP9G3V29D/IMG_3544_BW.jpg Push/Pull 1 Push/Pull, collaboration with Rita Leduc, Public Address Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2015 https://publicaddressgallery.com/exhibitions.html Patricia Brace and Rita Leduc are a collaborative duo who reposition their anxieties over time, place, and relationships through site-responsive performance-installations. For their exhibition at Public Address, Leduc will transform the gallery walls into a kinetic system that rejects its very purpose; if ever someone should touch the walls, they will shift, sway, and threaten collapse. On the walls are similarly precarious paintings. Only when “played” by Brace will the walls, and thus the paintings, obey. In her three public performances, experienced live both in person and on PA-TV, Brace will master the nine-walled instrument, conducting the flips and flaps into a musical score. Push/Pull plays with the artists' roles as they navigate and innovate within pre-existing career, familial, and inter-personal structures. Push/Pull is Brace and Leduc’s first piece that unabashedly invites their respective backgrounds in dance and theatre design to inform - rather than passively influence - their artistic practice. However, while Leduc’s installation begins as a stage for Brace, it is soon revealed as the director, only to transform yet again into the instrument and, eventually, partner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1444424157566-SEEBY4THGLW74UNH91VG/IMG_3565_BW.jpg Push/Pull 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1444424157811-8I96WO2FRWQX1CVT9SL0/IMG_3574_BW.jpg Push/Pull 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1444424160091-9GP9681CIPXKCD2801B8/IMG_3561_BW.jpg Push/Pull 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1444424155793-NBEX0R5QKS5OS1MES648/IMG_3545_BW.jpg Push/Pull 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1444424160103-J8UO2ZIXAKQC2M5CZKIY/IMG_3556_BW.jpg Push/Pull 1 http://www.patriciabrace.com/summer-pour-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1708291503199-UI4SPMDQ06JVWJ8KYOYV/Copy+of+Bassel_Brace_13.jpg Summer Pour: Milfoil, Maine SUMMER POUR 1: Milfoil, Maine, sits eagerly at the intersection of craft, environmental art, and socially engaged art. New research led by two artists, Milcah Bassel and Patricia Brace, collided in the summer of 2023 to bring forth the resulting body of work. Milcah Bassel’s Summer Pour is a friendship-based papermaking project, co-created annually with a rotating constellation of people, plants, and places. Set to discover new symbiotic relationships in each iteration, the project centers the intimate, the qualitative, the curious, and the handmade. In papermaking we find a nexus for learning from and about a plant through the craft of transforming its fiber, while also using its laboriousness as impetus for spending time with community in the act of making. The project extends from Bassel’s multidisciplinary practice, where she integrates material and non-material approaches for activating bodies in the private, public, and spiritual realms. Increasingly, these activations are experimental antidotes to the abundant crises of our time. An epidemic of loneliness is said by some to extend beyond our need for meaningful person-to-person contact and across an almost unspoken yearning for intimacy with other forms of life. We have an inherent longing for “nature” which we have rather thoroughly severed from “ourselves”. This project is an invitation to find collaborators in the plants, places, and people that surround us. It is in this spirit that Summer Pour hopes to be re-envisioned and re-discovered each year. Patricia Brace began working with milfoil in 2020, soon after moving to Lake Arrowhead, Maine. She was motivated to do something about the invasive aquatic plant taking over the lake, while also in search of a local community. After learning of PALZ, Brace joined the conservation group surveying Lake Arrowhead for invasive species. Brace’s work with PALZ has become a new branch of her somatic and community-based practice. Overall, Brace’s work is concerned with the body as it relates to place and crisis. Viewing performance art as the most sustainable visual art medium, Brace’s art examines how we cohabitate with nature during a rapidly unfolding climate situation. As an invasive species in a small Maine lake, the milfoil is a harbinger of the impact the changing climate has on our lives as it chokes the oxygen out of the lake. Like performance art, creating paper from milfoil is another way to grapple with place and crisis in a physical and tangible way. Bassel and Brace, who have collaborated on several projects over the last decade, decided to merge explorations and began researching the possibility of making paper out of milfoil. Brace collected and sundried copious amounts of milfoil from Lake Arrowhead in spring 2023. The dried plants were processed into a pulp with the help of Will O Valdes, Bassel’s student and MFA candidate at SMFA-Tufts University. The fibers were cooked briefly in soda ash and macerated in the Reina beater. To provide supplemental strength for the milfoil, abaca fibers were also prepared (a reliable papermaker’s fiber from the inedible banana plant grown in the Philippines). A special birthday weekend at the end of July was scheduled for the big Pour at the home of Brace and her husband Chris Hayden in Lake Arrowhead. Bassel and Brace were joined that day by Grace Brace and Ziv Steinberg who helped with all the joy and tedium of making large paper outdoors, documenting the process, and cleaning up, interrupted only by a midday swim in the lake. The milfoil and abaca pulp were formed into large sheets of paper using a 28 x 36” handcrafted papermaking mould and a combination of specialized and ad hoc equipment. A total of eight unique pieces resulted before the sun dropped away, each piece revealing new qualities of the milfoil by playing with ratios, texture, gradients, and layering. One of the most exciting discoveries was the rich black color of the fiber, something usually achieved only by adding black pigment to plant-based pulps. The paper was left to air dry and cockle or dried against wooden boards for restraint. The resulting pieces are best experienced in person to fully appreciate not only their visual but also tactile richness. 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R. A. C. E. B. R. A. C. E., MASS MoCA documents an obstacle course/performance/installation created by artist Patricia Brace while in a residency at MASS MoCA in 2018. The video features Brace, with artists Vered Snear, Danielle Andress, Chris Williford, Elisabeth Smolarz, and Hyo Jin Yoo, performing within an immersive, hard-edge, abstract, red, green, and blue environment. Wearing corresponding red, green, and blue B. R. A. C. E. costumes, in each act, performers activate the space with collaborative and improvisational feminist sketches. Bifurcated Radical Anarchist Cultural Enterprise or B. R. A. C. E. is a performance group of 1-5 women and LGBTQIA performers established by artist Patricia Brace in 2016. Since then B. R. A. C. E. has performed at Rutgers University, IF Museum Academy, Tête Berlin and MASS MoCA. Using hybridized forms of athletics, dance, product design, and analogue and digital technologies, B. R. A. C. 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Photo Credit: Patricia Brace and Danielle Andress http://www.patriciabrace.com/raffle daily 0.75 2025-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/7fe4d34d-ef3b-4c43-b3f1-0c2ca52f4a1e/img20250420_11261855.jpg Raffle Drawing 1: Sun Without a Sphere (Maine - Svalbard), 2025, 11 x 8.5", gouache, oil paint, watercolor paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/ba4639eb-e840-467b-9733-e90cab31ba61/img20250420_11351177.jpg Raffle Drawing 2: Sun Without a Sphere (Svalbard), 2025, 9 x 12", gouache, acrylic paint, oil paint, watercolor paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/7bc77909-c8a7-4cc6-b525-44a64fa3af98/img20250420_11424959.jpg Raffle Drawing 3: Sun Without a Sphere (Maine), 2025, 9 x 12", gouache, acrylic paint, oil paint, watercolor paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/ee895be0-2d6f-4f1e-b188-a008115d5e31/IMG_7818.jpg Raffle $50 gift certificate to The Foreside Tavern http://www.patriciabrace.com/a-sun-without-a-sphere daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/15572371-0ab0-4c7f-ba60-dab05ca0a11d/Brace_Patricia_01.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/ae30689b-0aea-4c32-b5de-2e50779abc64/Brace_Patricia_02.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/23cc76aa-731f-488c-b03a-8067eda5b412/Brace_Patricia_03.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/72a47a79-a360-47e2-82a1-ac17d6969afd/Brace_Patricia_04.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/6776daba-7a51-495b-be04-4a97f9111753/Brace_Patricia_05.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/46469d8f-841b-455b-98d6-afc97199fc51/Brace_Patricia_09.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/6c059bec-d097-45bd-a81d-ab37171c15f5/Brace_Patricia_01.jpg http://www.patriciabrace.com/in-search-of-the-miraculous-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1719667161781-9RX4A2IT203E9YWPG9CO/Brace_Patricia_04.jpg A Sun Without A Sphere Pepper’s Ghost (Green): Totality (Bladderwort), acrylic, steel, tv, 3:44m, 2024, 48” x 48” x 48” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1724344282608-KK8J5D3AJT52NS8D1UOI/240709_134435_Probably+Joel_aeolians+%28ILCE-7RM4%29A.jpg A Sun Without A Sphere https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53af2c22e4b0182daaf75c21/1716644895879-MHFM1DL00ILZM8JC9H1W/image-asset.jpeg A Sun Without A Sphere Pepper's Ghost 1: The Perfect Human, 2024, 76"h x 20"w x 30"l, steel, acrylic, tv, 1:04m Photo credit: Joel Tsui @ArtArchival This series of Pepper's Ghost sculptures addresses how external perceptions of a situation can be different from the truth of one's reality. The dance video is appropriated from Jorgen Leth’s experimental film “The Perfect Human,” about a seemingly happy couple and their superficial accomplishments. In the end, the couple separates and the last frame is the character, who Brace performs in the video, dining alone. 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