Gallery Artists: Judith Brassard Brown

Artist's Statement

My newest work responds to the insecurity and crisis now consuming us worldwide. I see this crisis centering on conflicts between powers over land and resources, that continues the conflicts of the crusades, between the great religions, between east and west, between those conquering and those conquered.

All these works are 'anti-war'. In making images that build on what has come before: our 'ancestors' of time, place, people and culture, I eliminate artificial boundaries that separate us. There is no ‘here’ or ‘there’, no ‘us’ and ‘them’; instead, there is a shared sense of a common ground and experience.

In these mixed media paintings, you see or sense what has come before. The collage elements are detritus (receipts, notes, love letters, maps, cancelled stamps, found materials, official documents), remnants from every day life from different eras and cultures; In addition, they reference our histories and the people who have come before. Some of the paintings are homages, of sorts, to other artists or to particular kinds of relationships or places. While it may seem odd to have such a wide range of subject and content they are all part of the larger tapestry of life.

Biography

Though best known as a painter showing her landscapes at the Arden Gallery in Boston (with solo exhibitions in 1996, 1999, and 2001) she continues to work and exhibit in a range of media. These exhibitions include the 8th Annual Photography Exhibition of the RicePolak Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and Memories, Reflections and Self, featuring her digital work at HallSpace gallery in Boston. Hold Still, a group show featuring mixed media and digital work, opened in May 2003 at StudioSoto in Boston and travelled to Montserrat's Carol Schlosberg Alumni. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Danforth Museum in May 2006.

Joining the Kingston Gallery in June of 2005, she has exhibited her work in the group exhibitions, 'Sampler" (2006), "Site Lines" and the Kingston Invitational (2005); "Ancestor" is her first solo exhibition. Other recent exhibitions (2006) include ‘Point of View’ at the Space at Alice in Providence, RI, “Just a Little While Here: with Sadie Dudley at the Perrin Gallery in Brookline, MA, ˜Small Works, a juried exhibition at the Attleboro Museum (2005), “Take Five" (with former students Daisy Adams, Bre Mahoney, Todd Kramer and Stacey Durand) at Mingo Gallery in Beverly.

Her work has been reviewed and featured in articles in Boston Magazine, the Boston Globe, Boston Globe's Sunday Magazine, Art New England, ArtsMedia, the Boston Herald, Il Messagero Viterbo, Il Messagero Veneto, and Il Piccolo. She has an extensive record of juried and invitational exhibitions in New England and New York; her work is included in more than 100 corporate and private collections in the United States and abroad.

Education: B.F.A., M.F.A., Boston University.

You can e-mail her at judithbbrown@yahoo.com

And she has a website at www.judithbrassardbrown.com

Judith Brassard Brown
"Betrothed"
Materials:

Judith Brassard Brown
"Path to the Lake" 2006
Materials: mixed media on board - 10" x 12"

Judith Brassard Brown
"Cascade" 2006
Materials: mixed media on board - 8" x 8"

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