"Bounding Main" Highlight: Jenny Brown

Posted by Kerry Thompson on

Jenny Brown, "Infinite Starlit Lily Reef"
pen & collage on paper, 8.5" x 11," 2016

Based in Providence, Rhode Island, Jenny Brown's artwork is truly unique. Elements of drawing, pen & ink, collage of found paper, and an imagination unlike any other combine to bring a mythical world of sea and forest creatures to life. Her recent collage works are dream-like, focusing on "a harmony amongst different elements of the natural world, from flora, to fauna, to the celestial, to the oceanic." Each individual piece is a unique organism, one of a seemingly infinite number of teeming and multitudinous forms of life drifting through the sea, or nestled into a quiet nook deep in the forest. The use of paper ephemera gives each piece a feeling of having been pulled from a vintage oceanographic almanac, or from the flat files of a natural history museum. We see that each is composed of multiple aspects: flowers, shells, jellyfish, tentacles, wisps, tendrils, feelers, pollen suspended about, but the collage of all these recognizable elements creates something new, something never seen before. Whether flora or fauna, we know these beings have life, a unique quality fashioned by a keen eye and delicate sensibility.

"An abundance of florals in the work represent the hearts and souls of these fantastic creatures...branches and tentacles represent their yearning to be connected...corals and sea plants reconnect these creatures to the most basic elements of life which created them...water and mineral."

Jenny Brown, "Homesick for the Starfish,"
"Homesick for the Cobweb Jellyfish," "Homesick for the Mirabelle Jellyfish,"
pen & collage on antique photo, 4" x 6.5", 2016

Jenny studied art at Bennington College and received her MFA from School of Visual Arts. She recently showed her work with the Anonymous Drawings collective in Berlin, Germany & Rome, Italy. She has also been featured on blogs such as Boooooom, Anthology Magazine, and The Jealous Curator. She was a featured artist in the October 2015 international issue of Fresh Paint Magazine."

Jenny Brown, "Weeping Sea Willow"
pen & collage on paper, 8.5" x 11," 2016
abalone anemone animal animal art animal painting aquatic aquatica art art show artist artwork assemblage beach bounding main Brooklyn art coast coastline collage Collier West collierwest contemporary art coral coral reef crashing wave CW Gallery drawing drawing on paper drawings dream dreamlike dreamy ethereal fairy tale fauna fine art fish flora floral florals flower flowers forest forest creature garden jellyfish leaf mixed media mythology nautical ocean ocean life oceans narcissiflora paint painting paper pen and ink pen and ink on paper pen on paper pink sand dollar school of fish sea sea angel sea flame sea nebula sea plants sealife tentacle thornbud anemone watercolor watercolor on paper work on paper works on paper

← Older Post Newer Post →

250 Degrees

RSS
Tags
36 views of mt. fuji abalone acrylic acrylic painting air Aliene de Souza Howell aluminum Amanda Scuglia anemone animal animal art animal painting annie wildey Antonio Massarutto aquarium aquatic aquatica architectural painting architecture art art show artist artwork assemblage athena atmosphere avia avian avian art ballpoint pen ballpoint pen on paper Bank Building barn beach beluga bicycle bicycle art bike bird bird art bird eggs bird house bird painting birds black and white boat boat painting bounding main branch Brooklyn Brooklyn art candelabra candlestick charcoal charcoal on paper chicken city city scene cityscape clip art cloud cloud art coast coastline collage Collier West collierwest contemporary art contemporary realism coral coral reef cow cow painting crashing wave creature CW Gallery david barnett diana corvelle discarded material dove dovecote drawing drawing on paper drawings dream dreamlike dreamy dress environment ephemera ethereal fairy tale farm farm painting fauna feather female female figure female form figurative art figure figure drawing fine art fine art print fine artist finial fish flora floral florals flower flowers flywheel forest forest creature found object foundling foundlings gallery gallery wall garden gesture gesture scultpure ghost girl goose gouache gouache on panel Gowanus gulls Guno Park Hilary Robin McCarthy hokusai horse horse painting ice cream scoop incredients intaglio jacquie green jellyfish Jessica Augier Jim Ebersole joseph cornell landscape large scale leaf linocut linoleum lisa lebofsky louise nevelson Lynne Wixon Mary A. Whalen Massarutto mixed media mixed media on panel monotype moose MTA rider mythology nautical nautilus New York Nico Sanchez Nicolas V. Sanchez Nikki Vail ocean ocean life oceans narcissiflora oil oil on canvas oil on linen oil on metal oil on panel oil on paper oil painting opening reception owl owl art paint paintig painting panel paper paper ephemera pen and ink pen and ink on paper pen on paper pink sand dollar plaster plein air porcelain port porthole portrait print print making printmaking red fish Red Hook represenational art rhino rhinoceros robbii robbii wessen Robert Goldstrom rooster salon school of fish sculpture sea sea angel sea birds sea flame sea nebula sea plants seagull sealife seascape seaside Shauna Finn shell shore shoreline show silhouette skull sky sky art skyline specimen tray still life study subway subway rider summer swan swan painting symbol Taliah Lempert talon tentacle thornbud anemone tree tree painting Tyler Vouros ukiyo-e ukiyo-e print veil vulture water tower watercolor watercolor on paper wave wave painting waves wedding dress Williamsburg Williamsburg Savings Bank Building winter wire wire sculpture witch woman woodblock print wooden crate work on paper works on canvas works on paper