Born and raised in Haiti, Brintle’s colorful style reflects her native land and her rich culture guides her creative muse. Her paintings are infused with complex symbolism. She favors bright and vivid colors as she explores the universality of human emotions in every one of her artworks. Some of Brintle’s artistic showings, include the Basilica di San Lorenzo in Florence, Italy and the Salon des Artistes Independents at the Grand Palais in Paris, France. The Queens Council on the Arts granted her to create life-size paintings of heroic women of the Haitian revolution and her commission “The Inclusive Icons of the Church of St. Francis Xavier” won the Faith and Form 2022 International award for Visual Arts.
Many of Brintle’s works address strong issues such as nuclear disarmament, the Holocaust and the Haitian earthquake. Several of her artworks on the devastation, resistance and rescue efforts of the Holocaust belong to the permanent collection of the Holocaust Museum of Temple Judea in Manhasset and A Delicate Balance won the “Images of Peace” national competition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Albert Schweitzer’s call for nuclear disarmament and belongs to the collection of the Albert Schweitzer Museum’s in Hamden, Connecticut. She is an inductee in the Haitian Rountable 1804 list of Haitian-American changemakers, her works are featured in movies, books and publications, and exhibits she internationally.
Brintle is also the president of From Here to Haiti, a non-profit charity doing repairs of Catholic churches in Haiti since 2010 and donates most of her artwork’s proceeds to FHTH.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Sisters of St. Joseph Center for Spirituality – Praying with Inclusive Icons 2/10/24
The studies of The Inclusive Icons of the Church of St. Francis Xavier will be used to meditate on the lives of the saints and encounter God’s presence in what we see rather than what we hear.
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Haiti-Louisiana: Tides of Freedom art exhibit – January 12 to March 17, 2024 – Historic BK House & Gardens, 1113 Chartres St., New Orleans. Celebrating the struggle for freedom and human rights between Haiti and Louisiana, highlighting key events such as the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the 1811 slave revolt in Louisiana. Tribute ceremony to the enslaved at the Whitney Plantation. Performance by RAM – Visit to the Destrehan Plantation where the German Coast Uprising took place in 1811 – Combit Libète with Jeff Pierre. (Artwork: Cecile Fatiman by Brintle)
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Brintle’s artwork “Madonna Assumption” on CD cover for “AGAVE: IN HER HANDS”
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On September 23, 2007, the international exhibit “Images of Peace” opened to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Albert Schweitzer’s call for nuclear disarmament. Brintle’s artwork “A Delicate Balance” won first place. The artwork now belongs to the permanent collection of the Schweitzer museum in Hamdem, Connecticut. Brintle got to meet survivors of Hiroshima at the opening.
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Brintle won the 2022 Faith and Form International Award for Religious Art & Architecture in the Visual Art Category for “The Inclusive Icons of the Church of St. Francis Xavier” in Manhattan. Brintle accepted the award at the American Institute of Architects Conference on June 8, 2023 in San Francisco.
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NY ART EXPO – March 30 to April 2, 2023 – Pier 36 299 South St., NY 10002
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CAFA 2023 – Caribbean Fine Art Fair Barbados, West Indies – March 8-12
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HARLEM FINE ART SHOW 15th Anniversary — February 24-26, 2023
The Glasshouse – Lexus of Manhattan 660 12th Avenue NYC – www.hfas.org
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Sisters of St. Joseph Center for Spirituality – Art and the Sacred 2/11/23
Patricia Brintle and Laura James will connect art, the sacred, and spiritual themes as a gateway to deepen one’s prayer.
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Define Beautiful Art Gallery – January 8, 2023 4:00 to 10:00 pm – Art exhibit and Meet the Artist with special viewing her iconic historical artworks 73-26 Yellowstone Blvd, Forest Hills, NY 11375 718-263-2000
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In 2022 Brintle was commissioned to create a portrait of Sister Thea Bowman for the hall named for her at Thomas Berry Place at the Passionists monastery located in Jamaica, Queens NY.
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In 2021 Brintle was commissioned to create twelve icons of saints of various ethnicity which have been permanently installed around the nave at St. Francis Xavier church at 46W 16th Street in New York.
In 2022, The Inclusive Icons of the Church of St. Francis Xavier won the 2022 Faith and Form award in the visual arts category from Sacred Places. To view the award and judges comment, please click on the link:
https://sacredplaces.org/2022-faith-form-award-the-church-of-st-francis-xavier/
Booklets featuring all 12 saints and holy images of each saint are available free of charge at the entrance of the church.
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Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts – Diaspora Expressions – On Spirituality and Ritual – St. Croix, US Virgin Island (Nov. 18 to Dec 31, 2022)
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Dallas Art Expo – Artblend Gallery (Sept. 16-18, 2022)
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Consulate General of France in New York – “A Haitian Art Exhibition to Benefit the Haitian Roundtable” (June 9 and June11, 2022)
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Queens Central Library – Heroines of the Haitian Revolution (Nov 15 to Dec 18, 2021) Art creation and exhibit made possible by a grant from the Queens Council on the Arts.
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New York Art Expo – Booth 123 – Artblend Gallery (Apr. 23, 2020 – Apr. 26, 2020)
MERCY BY THE SEA Retreat & Conference Center “Colors of Haiti”
167 Nick Rd, Madison, CT 06443 – (203) 245-0401 (Mar. 3, 2020 – Apr. 13, 2020)
Long Island City Artists – “LIC-A @ Atlantic Gallery” Chelsea – 548W 28th Street, Unit 540 NY, NY 10001 (Feb. 18, 2020 – Mar. 7, 2020)
Brooklyn College – “Vertieres & Louisiana Purchase” (Nov. 10, 2019 – Feb. 25, 2020)
Queens Public Library (Various) “Migration of colors” (Nov. 1, 2019 – Jan. 4, 2020)
