Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown makes biomorphic drawings and sculptures that blur boundaries between the real and the imagined. She exhibits nationally, including exhibitions at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, the Indianapolis Art Center, and The Delaware Contemporary. Brown is the recipient of several grants including a Maine Artist Fellowship and the Lighton International Artist Exchange Program Award. She has participated in numerous art residency programs including time at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, the European Ceramic Work Center in the Netherlands and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. Brown received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and her BA from Hamilton College. She currently lives in Bath, Maine and she teaches in the Visual Arts at Bowdoin College.
Artist Statement
At the heart of my work is a love of materiality, a fascination with living systems, and an ongoing curiosity about what it means to be alive. Each work in this series is an accumulation of cut and layered sheets of paper and through this approach I aim to suggest an underlying depth and structure to the way things grow, move, and expand on a microscopic level. The act of cutting through paper is a way of revealing what lies beneath the surface and with each work, I hope to suggest that there is more to discover, that there are still layers beyond our grasp, and that there is limitless potential for growth and transformation in the world around us.
