Patricia Brett: Home: I Guess That This Must be the Place

"Home: I Guess That This Must be the Place" traces Patricia Brett’s path from a poor childhood in Ravenna, Ohio, through three distinct careers that have shaped her artistic vision and her understanding of home. It explores the threads that have woven through her life: family, Catholicism, hard work, emigration, generational trauma, and the shadow of BRCA1 cancer risk. These themes find expression through Brett’s chosen medium of monochromatic cast paper relief, a process that allows her to capture both presence and absence, memory and substance.