Brandy Agun

I contemplate my recent work and recognize that I have slowly drifted from the more realistic images I used to paint to a broader depiction of the world. There was a time I thought I would merrily march in the direction of the Renaissance masters drawing the figure rigorously and honing my skills as a figure painter. While this subject still intrigues me I found myself growing increasingly attentive to the spaces people occupied, particularly their common, familiar everyday surroundings. I began to understand that what truly interested me in painting was the color, the shapes, the light and the design. What excites me is what something looks like far more than what something actually is. And this discovery led me to paint interior and exterior spaces with or without figures and still lifes. And it altered how I painted the figure as well. It is the abstraction of things that I find fascinating and the root of my vision.
I find seeing everything in terms of an abstract design the most exhilarating part of painting. There is a place where representation and abstraction meet and it is an exhilarating endeavor for me to push that boundary allowing some of an image to be clearly understood and other parts more vague disso...

Figure drawing classes at Portland Art Museum 1989.
Figure drawing, pastel, sculpture classes and assorted workshops at Gage Academy of Fine Art from 1997 to 2007.
Tenaya Simms classical art classes summer of 2008.
Full figure ecorche, head ecorche, anatomy and drawing classes at Seattle Sculpture Atelier from summer of 2010 to spring of 2011.
Georgetown Atelier full time student from fall of 2009 to summer of 2012.

Collective Visions Gallery annual group show; winter of 2023; Bremerton, WA.
Fountainhead Gallery group show; winter of 2023; Seattle, WA.
Fountainhead Gallery solo show; summer of 2023; Seattle, WA.
Fountainhead Gallery group show; winter of 2022; Seattle, WA.
Gig Harbor History Museum solo show; fall of 2022; Gig Harbor, WA.
Peninsula Art League open juried show; summer of 2022; Gig Harbor, WA.
Lavender Art Festival; summer of 2022; Sequim, WA.
Las Laguna Gallery group show; summer of 2022; Las Laguna, CA. (online)
Overlake Hospital group show; summer of 2022; North Bend, WA.
Britt Greenland Gallery group show; summer of 2022; North Bend, WA.
Collective Visions Gallery annual group show; winter of 2021; Bremerton, WA.
Evergreen Association of Fine Arts Gallery group show; summer of 2020; Issaquah, WA.
Fountainhead Gallery 2 person show; winter of 2019; Seattle, WA.
Collective Visions Gallery annual group show; winter of 2018; Bremerton, WA.
Caldwell Bank; summer of 2018; Port Townsend, WA.
Collective Visions Gallery annual group show; winter of 2017; Bremerton, WA.
Match Coffee House solo show; winter of 2017; Duvall, WA.
Verum Ultimum Gallery group show; winter of 2017; Portland, OR.
Northwest Art Center group show; summer of 2...