Teresa Booth Brown

Chromophore

october 9 - december 14, 2020

PRESS RELEASE

Skye Gallery presents Chromophore, a solo exhibition of paintings and prints by Teresa Booth Brown. 

A chromophore is the part of a molecule responsible for color. Hues seen by our eyes are wavelengths of visible light which are not absorbed, but which instead are reflected by the physical properties of the thing at which we are looking.

Brown’s works  include paintings in oil and collage as well as prints.  Brown explores through these media how  color relationships,  abstract imagery, and architectural geometry create distinct experiential moments in the viewer. 

Teresa Booth Brown is an artist and teacher best known for her use of collage in oil painting, mixed-media drawings, and printmaking. Her collage materials come from a wide range of sources including fashion magazines, discarded teaching materials, and obsolete textbooks. Strong color, abstracted imagery, and architectural geometry distinguish her work. 

Teresa studied at Reed College, the Museum Art School, and Bennington College; and continues a teaching tradition which helps artists to identify and develop unique and individual directions in their own work. Her teaching focus also includes making art experiences and art-making activities which are accessible to everyone.

She is the Artist Programs Coordinator for the Aspen Art Museum, teaches at the Pitkin County Jail, and is an adjunct teaching artist at the Denver Botanic Garden's School of Art. She was the interim Director of Painting, Drawing and Printmaking at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in 2017.

Teresa has been awarded residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Ucross Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the Campo Artist Colony in Uruguay, and La Napoule Art Foundation. She is the 2019-20 recipient of the Marion International Fellowship Grant, State University of New York, Fredonia.