Amanda Brazier’s abstract, geometric paintings are paired with Rylan Steele’s color photographs in the Association for Visual Arts’ next show. Opening Friday is “Structure,” which presents art that explores our reactions with and understanding of our environment.
Brazier uses handmade oil paint and layers and veils of color to create nonrepresentational paintings that suggest interiors, towers and landscapes.
“I gather imagery and inspiration from geometry, architecture, ancient art, language and maps,” she said. “These are the artifacts of man’s sense-making of his world.”
Brazier is fascinated by how an eroded, fragmented object from thousands of years ago can connect us to the creator of that object and teach us about his relationship to his world. She believes that man makes marks so that he can understand his reality. But that attempt is often futile because life is so uncertain. He leaves behind artifacts for future generations to understand how he coped with life and his environment.
Brazier’s “artifacts” are geometric paintings with straight edges and intentional brushstrokes.