Making pictures is primal for me. The fuel for my artistic expression is drawn from the early and successive traumas I’ve experienced since childhood. It drives the making of images that provide meditative spaces, help us untangle the messy business of being human. These paintings can help us reflect and engage with the intensity of our reactions, experiences, our stories, to whatever is happening in the world around us. I believe, with all my heart, in the healing power that comes from making, viewing, and engaging with art.

This latest body of mixed media works are combinations of joy and fury. They speak to the struggles of finding our balance, our voice, our agency in this very difficult time. They remind us to see the beauty that still exists in the world, while adding to the actions of other artists across disciplines, and to support others working in every arena, for more civil, intelligent, and inclusive communities.

Artist Bio

Judith Brassard Brown is a Professor of Painting at Montserrat College of Art and adjunct faculty at Northeastern University’s CAMD. Currently represented by the Kingston Gallery in Boston (since 2005) and The Robert Collins Gallery in Rockport (since 2022) other representation has 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.