Emily Brown

Adjunct Faculty, Continuing Ed

Emily Brown has drawn and painted primarily from the natural world for most of her life. She works both outdoors and in the studio, with a variety of dry and wet media on paper and other supports. She is perhaps best known for her large ink wash drawings based on textures and surfaces found in the wild; other forms include oil paintings, dry medium drawings, collages and prints.

She is represented by Gallery Joe in Philadelphia, which presented her fourth solo show in November 2011. Her work has been in one-person exhibitions in Manhattan, Maine, Philadelphia and Doylestown, and numerous group exhibitions along the east coast and in France. Selected awards include residencies at the MacDowell Foundation, La Napoule Art Foundation (Côte d’Azur, France) and Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY; a Purchase Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a Pew Fellowship in Painting; a Leeway Foundation Award for Excellence in Works on Paper; and a Visual Arts grant from the Independence Foundation.

Her work is in many collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the James A. Michener Museum, the MacDowell Colony, PAFA, Alliance Bernstein in Tokyo and the US Embassy, Astana, Kazakhstan. She received a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania after attending Middlebury, PAFA and the Boston Museum School. She is also a faculty member at the University of the Arts.  She teaches Painting and Drawing in the PAFA Continuing Education Program.