Mia Brownell
New Haven, USA
My work is a meditation on the genetic makeup of food, inviting the viewer to celebrate life in its most fundamental state. By intertwining clusters of ripe fruit in meandering structures suspended in space, I embrace a fusion of traditional still-life techniques and scientific models of proteins. The paintings express a realization that the act of chewing food is an elaborate intersection between many things including self, body, body image, other species, agriculture, culture, industry (industrialized food complex), and biotechnology.
Oil on canvas
60” x 48”
Oil on canvas
48” x 60”
Oil on canvas
16” x 20”
Oil on canvas
11” x 9”
Oil on canvas
30” x 36”
Private collection, Boston, MA; courtesy of Sloan Fine Art, NYC
MIA BROWNELL, MFA, teaches painting and drawing in New Haven at Southern Connecticut State University and has had solo exhibitions in several cities in the US including New York, Boston, and Washington, DC. Her paintings are in several private, corporate, and public art collections such as Wellington Management, Fidelity Investments, and the National Academy of Sciences. Her work has been reviewed and published in The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, New York Times, Artnet and HiFructose Magazine. Recently, she participated in the Aldrich Museum’s Radius program for emerging artists and completed a visiting artist residency at The American Academy in Rome. Visit her website at http://www.miabraownell.com/.
Highlighted in Frontispiece Volume 4, Issue 1 – Winter 2012
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