Jamie Brunson
Lamy, NM
Sunder
Vintage book paper, sandpaper, oil and acrylic paint, acrylic medium on Fabriano rag paper
10.25" x 7"
2021
$2000
About
Jamie Brunson studied painting at the California College of the Arts (BFA, 1978) and at Mills College (MFA, 1983). Her formal, abstract paintings are informed by physical encounters with historic architecture during her world travel, and by her ongoing kundalini meditation practice. Brunson’s work is represented by Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and by Robischon Gallery in Denver, Colorado. Her paintings are in the Neiman Marcus Collection; the collection of the United States Embassy in Doha, Qatar; the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; UNM Hospital, Albuquerque, and the NM State University Art Museum in Las Cruces. In California, her work is the collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, the di Rosa Art Preserve in Napa , the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, California.
Artist Statement
My compositions are based on encounters with architecture and place—both urban settings and ancient sites I’ve seen in world travel. My work is process-based, additive and subtractive. I make the mixed-media architectonic collage studies by gluing down layers of precisely cut vintage paper, or paper painted with acrylic and oil, building up and abrading to evoke architectural surfaces. The tactile physicality of these materials, marked by age and wear, mimics the surface qualities of ancient and urban structures. My studio practice conjoins my ongoing meditation practice, emphasizing open awareness, observation, and patient process. I use material and process to embody the elusive, but penetrating and palpable sense of “presence” embedded in physical locations shaped by the passage of time and use.
Portfolio
Representation
Turner Carroll Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
Robischon Gallery
Denver, CO