PHYLLIS BRAMSON
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Biography
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Feminine Mapping (but it's not her world), 2022
mixed media and collage on canvas 70 x 60 in 177.8 x 152.4 cm |
Phyllis Bramson is a visual storyteller of romantic folly, tragedy, and comedic relief, Bramson is a surrealist painter best known for her maximalist style and cosmic disorder. A self-described “painter-comedian,” Bramson’s palette is a colorful array of beauty, humor, love, and lust. Bramson is a Rococo artist of the present day with an acute awareness for painting’s long history of male-gaze media. Engaging with imagery that depicts women as objects of affection rather than humans of individual agency, Bramson flips this narrative on its head by centering women’s empowerment and pleasure with her erotic anecdotes.
Bramson has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (1993), the Rockefeller Foundation (1997), and the National Endowment for the Arts (1976 and 1983) among others. She has shown work in galleries and museums in the U.S. and internationally including the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Rockefeller Center for Studio Arte in Bellagio, Italy. Bramson’s work is part of numerous private and public collections such as The Bronx Museum of Arts, Rhode Island School of Art and Design Museum, and the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to name a few. Bramson serves as an advisor to MFA students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
