UPCOMING SHOW
If you lie down in a field, she will find you there
Colleen Brown, Artist in Residence
April 1 – April 30
Reception: Sunday, April 2, 2-4pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 15, 1pm
Colleen Brown has created textiles, sculptures, paintings and works of intervention related to her upcoming book titled, If you lie down in a field, she will find you there, published by Radiant Press in the Fall of 2023.
The book captures the cadence of family stories collected through Colleen's interviews with her siblings. These stories pile up together the way they might around a dinner table. It is an inside look at how children born twenty years apart collectively remember their mother. It demonstrates how we construct stories about each other, focused on one of the most critical relationships in our lives, our relationship with our mothers.
In the exhibition, Colleen takes a very different approach to memory, focusing on the richness of texture and colour of some experiences seen in the rearview mirror of memory. Colleen combines the fabrics, objects and iconography of a child with those of an adult, as they are always mixed in places that house mothers and children.
Colleen is primarily known as a sculptor who explores the relationships of objects and materials to think through abstraction and social encounters. Colleen holds a BFA from Emily Carr University, a BA in Psychology from SFU and an MFA from Bard College, New York. Her most recent solo exhibitions have been with Burrard Foundation and Unit 17, both in Vancouver.
Colleen Brown, Artist in Residence
April 1 – April 30
Reception: Sunday, April 2, 2-4pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 15, 1pm
Colleen Brown has created textiles, sculptures, paintings and works of intervention related to her upcoming book titled, If you lie down in a field, she will find you there, published by Radiant Press in the Fall of 2023.
The book captures the cadence of family stories collected through Colleen's interviews with her siblings. These stories pile up together the way they might around a dinner table. It is an inside look at how children born twenty years apart collectively remember their mother. It demonstrates how we construct stories about each other, focused on one of the most critical relationships in our lives, our relationship with our mothers.
In the exhibition, Colleen takes a very different approach to memory, focusing on the richness of texture and colour of some experiences seen in the rearview mirror of memory. Colleen combines the fabrics, objects and iconography of a child with those of an adult, as they are always mixed in places that house mothers and children.
Colleen is primarily known as a sculptor who explores the relationships of objects and materials to think through abstraction and social encounters. Colleen holds a BFA from Emily Carr University, a BA in Psychology from SFU and an MFA from Bard College, New York. Her most recent solo exhibitions have been with Burrard Foundation and Unit 17, both in Vancouver.
