Judith Brassard Brown

Artist Statement

Around the Bend is an informal way to describe a slight nuttiness or a more serious bout of insanity. This recent work, landscapes drawn from imagination and experience, address our anxieties in response to the longer arc of time and recent events, are visual responses of joy, the unexpected or trauma as we find our way, as we live with the hopes and fears for what lies unseen from our current vantage point. 

Artist Bio

Brown teaches freshman and upper level courses in the Foundation and Painting Departments at Montserrat College of Art. Currently represented by the Kingston Gallery in Boston (since 2005), other home bases included The Arden Gallery (1993-2005) in Boston, The Hopkins Gallery in Wellfleet (1990-98) and the Gimbel Gallery of Contemporary Art in NYC (1981-84). Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at the Danforth Museum (Framingham, MA) the Art Complex Museum (Duxbury, MA), Soho20 (NYC), Cerulean Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), HallSpace in Boston, MA, and venues in Rome, Viterbo and Trieste, Italy. Artist books are increasingly paired with her studio work. In discussing her most recent publications and exhibitions, Brown writes, " Like the disparate elements coordinated in paintings or as we sleep, poems and narratives offer departure points to question, revisit or reprocess experience.

Her work has been reviewed and featured in articles in The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Art New England, ArtScope, Cape Cod Voice, Delicious Line, Boston Traveler, Il Messagero Viterbo and Trieste's Il Piccolo. Brassard Brown's work is included in corporate and private collections in the United States and abroad.