Patterns + Pieces: Recipes of Home - New work by Janine Brown

Silvermine Galleries presents a solo exhibition by a versatile artist whose recent work embraces home economics and kitchen chemistry to create home-cooked composite materials. The materials are stitched together and sculpted to critique myths of the domestic space, women, and capitalism. Janine Brown’s Patterns and Pieces: Recipes of Home runs through July 11. The opening reception is on Sat., June 8, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Brown brings to her work an autobiographical element and an interest in symbolic composites. “My work is informed by a curiosity about materials, as well as my experience as a fashion designer, wife, and mother of twins from the rural Midwest. I explore the identity of people, places, and things, through sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography, video, and installation art. My current body of work is informed by the history of the home economics movement which started in 1899. The movement used science as a basis for female-led innovation in the home. I bring the science to my studio by using kitchen chemistry to cook biodegradable plastic and rubber composites to encapsulate kitchen leftovers, family financial statements, U.S. currency, and flowers.” The composites are used to create objects that given the right circumstances can be freed from their myths when the materials biodegrade. Brown’s career encompasses a wide repertoire of work from representational to abstract. She writes, “the medium and style that I use to visually communicate my ideas change based on what I feel will best communicate my thoughts. Regardless of the medium, each work has a personal story behind it.” Born in Iowa, Brown graduated from Iowa State University with a BFA and from the Fashion Institute of Technology with an associate degree in Applied Science in Fashion Design. She also holds an MBA from the Stern School at New York University and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She is a member of The Artists Collective of Westport and the Silvermine Guild of Artists. She resides in Westport, Connecticut, and maintains a studio in Bridgeport. Brown’s award-winning artwork has been exhibited in solo shows at the Moorpark College Art Gallery (Moorpark, California); Gallery 825 (West Hollywood, California); and the Westport Arts Center (Westport, Connecticut). In addition, her work has been in numerous group exhibitions, which include “Liminal Forms” at The Invisible Dog (Brooklyn, NY); “Public|Private” and “New Artifacts” at the SVA Flatiron Gallery (New York City, NY); “Tra 2 Mari” at the Museo Area Archeologica Arte Contemporanea (Cisternino, Italy); and "How We See Her" at the Foundry Art Center (Missouri). Patterns and Pieces: Recipes of Home runs concurrently with Metamorphosis: The Changing Landscape. Both exhibitions run through July 11 at Silvermine Galleries..

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