Using sumi ink wash as her medium, Emily Brown investigates the play of light on the leaves and branches of trees. By combining ink and water as she works on watercolor paper, she is able to achieve a broad range of textures. Her brushstrokes have an almost calligraphic fluidity, allowing thin washes to seep into murky pools of ink in order to convey the depth and density of a wooded area. Here, she has created three works on paper that fit within the panels of the walls of the north gallery. A pair of drawings flanking the doorway feature a long grouping of conifers standing north of Wave Hill House. A third, smaller work is drawn from a grove in the woods below Glyndor House. The conifers shown here offer up a singular intricacy of form, which Brown ably explores with her arrestingly varied style of mark-making. These works continue her interest in working with ink to render natural landscapes, an approach she has been pursuing for over ten years.

Emily Brown has had recent solo exhibitions at the James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA; Swarthmore College’s List Gallery, Swarthmore, PA; Philadelphia International Airport, PA; the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME. Recent group exhibitions include the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; the Portland Museum of Art, ME; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA. Her work is featured in numerous public, institutional, and corporate collections. Brown has received a number of awards and residencies. She currently teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. She earned a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She is represented by Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA; Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME; and Isalos Gallery, Stonington, ME. Brown will lead the In Study with Artists workshop Drawing from the Landscape on Sunday,
April 19, 2009 from 12:30 to 4pm.

More information can be found at: http://www.galleryjoe.com/other-artists/browne