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| bio Silvana Bruni was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada, as the fifth of six children. She grew up in a house beautifully designed and built by her father and on enormous quantities of handmade food beautifully "designed and built" by her mother. As a young girl, Bruni began her own creating. Among her first explorations were wands made of branches and snow, and potions made in mason jars. She later relocated to Toronto to study art. In 1999, Bruni received Worn, battered drumskins (she's a drummer as well) and acrylic glass are Bruni's trademark canvases - the unique surfaces where her visual autobiographical narratives emerge. Informed and inspired by her own life, including the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism and yoga, Bruni's established oeuvre on glass and drumskins serves as the foundation for daily observations, dilemmas, insights and revelations. In her work on acrylic glass, Bruni explores the depth and space of its transparency, layering materials that include found objects from her daily surroundings either collaged or traced into the image, converging to build intimate, dynamic narratives. On the other end of the spectrum, Bruni's work on used drumskins has very little added to the marks left from drumsticks, creating latent images that the artist sees afterwards - simple, poignant, playful pictures that carry on from where the beat left off. After 16 years of being based in Toronto, Bruni finally answered an internal call for "open space" and a slower pace, and stepped out of the big city to explore Northern Ontario again. Having come full circle, she is presently enjoying reconnecting with nature, and her creative work is further flourishing in her new surroundings. |
her BFA Hons degree from York University and has been developing and exhibiting her art extensively since then. Her work is held in private collections in Canada, the U.S. and internationally, and can be found on book and music record covers. She was the recipient of the Honorable Mention Award for Mixed Media at the 2004 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, and an Ontario Arts Council Grant for Emerging Artists this year of 2011.