Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Emily Brown

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Philadelphia, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003
More: www.emilybrown.net
Emily Brown is a Philadelphia-based painter, educator, and visual artist. Brown has drawn and painted primarily from the natural world for most of her life. She works both outdoors and in the studio, with a variety of dry and wet media on paper and other supports. She is perhaps best known for her large ink wash drawings based on textures and surfaces found in the wild; other forms include oil paintings, dry medium drawings, collages and prints. Brown is represented by Gallery Joe in Philadelphia. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Manhattan, Maine, Philadelphia, and Doylestown, PA and numerous group exhibitions in the U.S. and France. Selected awards include residencies at MacDowell, La Napoule Art Foundation (Côte d’Azur, France), and Wave Hill in New York; a Purchase Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a Pew Fellowship in Painting; a Leeway Foundation Award for Excellence in Works on Paper; and a Visual Arts grant from the Independence Foundation. Her work is in many collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the James A. Michener Art Museum, MacDowell, PAFA, Alliance Bernstein in Tokyo and the U.S. Embassy, Astana, Kazakhstan. She received a B.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania after attending Middlebury, PAFA and the Boston Museum School. She is also a faculty member at the University of the Arts. Brown teaches painting and drawing in the Continuing Education program.

Studios

Firth

Emily Brown worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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