Harvey Preston Gallery

BIOGRAPHY

Teresa Booth Brown is a collage-focused artist who makes paintings, works on paper, interactive work, and clothing; and is the Director of Education and Community Programs for the Aspen Art Museum. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Ucross Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the Campo Artist Colony in Uruguay, and La Napoule Art Foundation in the South of France. She is the 2020 recipient of the Marion International Fellowship Grant, the 2022 Art Base Achievement in the Arts Award, and a 2023 inaugural City of Aspen Cultural Vibrancy Fellowship Grant. Her practice includes radical community arts advocacy, teaching, and supporting artists to build strong and joyful individual artistic practices. She brings the added specialized experience of being a trained pattern maker and clothing designer, master gardener, beekeeper, and pastry chef to all of her work.

ARTIST STATEMENT

A fascination with the relationship between representation and abstraction drives my artistic practice. In painting, collage, and printmaking, I provoke moments when this dichotomy becomes unstable or collapses altogether, when two dimensionality becomes three, when solid becomes fluid, when the familiar becomes strange.

I set myself the challenge of structuring into each piece a tension between the conceptual and the concrete. Fragments of photographic imagery pull the viewer into moments of recognition while flat, geometrical fields of color insist on the materiality of the paint and its composition.