Maggi Brown

Selected Works
Purple Lemon
2018
Oil on canvas

14 x 16 inches (35.6 x 40.6 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #34119)

Gold Rush
2012
Oil on canvas

Signed, titled and dated on reverse
26 x 28 inches (66 x 71.1 cm)
(Inventory #25395)

Departure
2012
Oil on canvas

26 x 28 1/8 inches (66 x 71.4 cm)
Signed, titled and dated on reverse
(Inventory #25401)

Blue With Gray Borders
2012
Oil on canvas

Signed, titled and dated on reverse
24 x 28 inches  (61 x 71.1 cm)
(Inventory #25404)

Pale Painting with Black Borders
2002
Oil on canvas

60 1/8 x 54 1/8 inches (152.7 x 137.5 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #14313)

White One/Glow
2002
Oil on canvas in two parts

56 x 51 3/4 inches each  (142.2 x 131.4 cm each)
Signed on reverse on each
(Inventory #34122)

Am I Blue
2000
Oil on canvas

54 x 52 inches (137.2 x 132.1 cm)
(Inventory #12232)

Circle
1993
Oilstick and graphite on paper

15 x 16 inches (38.1 x 40.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, titled lower left
(Inventory #7197)

Lead Painting with Numbers
1993
Oil on canvas

54 x 50 1/4 inches  (137.2 x 127.6 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #34118)

Lead Painting with Strings
1993
Oil on canvas with strings

28 x 32 1/8 inches (71.1 x 81.6 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated on reverse
(Inventory #7482)

Checkerboard Form
1990
Monotype on paper

29 1/2 x 42 inches (74.9 x 106.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower recto
(Inventory #11450)

Additional Information

I see my work as abstract interpretations of subject matter that is usually quite specific. In a broad sense, I am interested in the connection between things which are opposed, what they have in common, and what kind of visual statement they make when combined. For me, all art that is meaningful deals in multifarious ways with the reconciliation of opposites.

Since I began drawing and painting at a very early age, my work has evolved from figurative to various types of abstraction. Although I am primarily a painter, I occasionally work with oil sticks on paper, applying them heavily so that they appear much like paint. On a physical level, the use of color and its role in expression and communication is of paramount importance in what I do. I have a strong interest in surface as well, and I prefer to work on large canvasses, scraping, scratching, over-layering and glazing. At times it is this physicality itself that triggers the work, but more often it is my response to something I have seen or read, music I enjoy, current events in the news or travel experiences.

Some of my paintings and drawings incorporate mark-making, mostly obscured or unreadable text, and/or an element of architectural shape. Simultaneously, I continue to have a fascination with nearly empty, contemplative canvasses (a type of landscape referential minimalism) where color and texture are key. Presently my interest is divided between these two types of work and my challenge is to resolve this dichotomy. — Maggi Brown

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