Susan Q Brown

SUSAN Q. BROWN is an American contemporary painter whose work moves between magical, fabulist scenes and abstract paintings that evoke the natural landscape and human forms. She draws on pillars of art history, from ancient Buddhist and Indian art to Agnes Martin and Hilma af Klint, and works in a vibrant palette of richly layered oils, combining dimensional luminosity with flat opaqueness.

Brown spent her early years traveling the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe, painting, sailing and experiencing other cultures. She received a BA in painting from Vermont College. In 2010, with her husband, sculptor Aaron Brown, she was awarded three Maine Arts Commission grants totaling $119,000, including WaterFlows, a large-scale steel and resin sculpture at Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor.

Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries, including the Fitchburg Art Museum and UMass Amherst. In 2011 she showed a series of paintings at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in “Wherever You Are is the Center of the World,” curated by Mara Williams. She lives and works in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire.