Kathleen Adair Brown                       ( view exhibit...       press...)
The Golden Thread
Paintings, Collage + Drawings
June 17 – July 31, 2010

Adair Brown's retrospective will include over 50 pieces from the 1940s to present. This is the first full-scale look at Adair Brown's long career since many of her paintings, drawings, collages and boxes in the exhibition are on public display for the first time.

Of her work Adair Brown states:

“In making my work I use Xerox copies, sometimes in different sizes, of only the few drawings that I feel are good and true. On the Xerox copies I am free to experiment with different colors, while keeping the drawings unspoiled. I use dry pastel and watercolor over which I brush an egg yolk wash; that finishing wash returns the depth and vibrancy of the watercolor's original wetness and also reveals the mystery that lies within pastel. I tear and rearrange those painted pieces on a heavy sheet of watercolor paper before pasting them down, keeping the composition fluid until all the parts fit well into the final painting. I find my subject matter in books, following The Golden Thread in poetry, history, and literature; my work is that Golden Thread made visible.