We are thrilled to work with guest curator, Melaine Ferdinand-King, PhD on this survey of works on paper by Donnamaria Bruton. Please stay tuned for updates, and join us for an opening reception on May 8, 2026, 6-8pm.
Twenty Recipes for Patience is the first focused exhibition of Donnamaria Bruton’s prints and paper-based works. The collection features monoprints, lithographs, woodcuts, drypoints, etchings, and collages that reveal Bruton’s preoccupation with themes of spirituality, escape, and landscape. For Bruton, spirituality was the primary lens through which she developed her printmaking practice because it offered a pathway to consciousness through creative labor. She forged a sense of discipline in silence, stillness, prayer, and study, leading to, as she once described it, a “transformation from anxiety to peace, intolerance to patience, anger to love”. Produced across nearly twenty years, the series holds a convergence of mark, media, and movement that collectively testify to Bruton’s belief that conscious confrontation with surreality and anomaly can aid in restoring the human spirit.
