Ghost Ship Gallery

“Simple figurative and animal subjects, leashed and unleashed, are the focus of my work as well as an often revisited theme of my father’s boats. My style of painting is a fine balance between storytelling and the rough elegance of form and color."

Patricia Canelake lives and works in Knife River, Minnesota. She has received two McKnight Foundation Fellowships, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grants, Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Fellowships, and Arrowhead Regional Arts Council awards.

Her work has been exhibited at numerous museums and galleries throughout the country, including The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Provincetown Arts Association (Provincetown, Massachusetts), Gayle Elston Gallery (New York, NY), Bond Street Gallery (New York, NY), and Headlands Center for the Arts (Fort Barry, California).