Jamie Brunson
Santa Fe, NM
Interval (Tangerine)
Oil, alkyd and wax on polyester over panel
24" x 24"
2017
About
Jamie Brunson studied painting at the California College of the Arts (BFA, 1978) and at Mills College (MFA, 1983). Her work is represented by Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, Illinois and by Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado. Her paintings are in the collections of: the United States Embassy in Doha, Qatar; the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; and the NMSU Art Museum in Las Cruces. In California, her work is in the collections of: San Jose Museum of Art; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; the di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Triton Museum in Santa Clara.
Brunson moved to New Mexico in 2014. Previously, she lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, teaching in the painting, graduate and continuing education programs at the San Francisco Art Institute; San Francisco State University; the California College of the Arts, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Artist Statement
I translate perceptual experiences of architecture and place into abstract, reductive compositions. Observation, and the open awareness derived from my ongoing kundalini meditation practice, are major elements of my studio practice. My paintings are process-based, the result of layering oil paint, alkyd medium and refined beeswax on polyester canvas stretched over panel.
Some of my work has been informed by urban settings, while other pieces reflect elements of the historic sites and sacred architecture I’ve seen in world travel. Using saturated color, rhythmic intervals, geometric divisions, and tactile surfaces, I reduce specific detail into formal structure to embody the elusive, but penetrating and palpable sense of “presence” embedded in physical locations shaped by use and the passage of time.
Portfolio
Representation
Turner Carroll Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
Art from Jamie Brunson in other TAAC exhibitions