Jamie Brunson - Room 307
Painter and collage artist Jamie Brunson studied painting at the California College of the Arts (BFA, 1978) and at Mills College (MFA, 1983) in Oakland, CA. A native Californian, Brunson lived in Japan in the 1960s; in the 1990s and 2000s, she traveled to India, Tibet, Vietnam and Laos, Indonesia, Thailand, Europe and North Africa. The ornamental details in historic churches, temples, palaces and ruins, and the geometry and textures of industrial/urban architecture, have shaped her formal, tactile, found-material collage work.
Brunson’s paintings are included in the Neiman Marcus Collection; US Embassy in Doha, Qatar; Nevada Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, and The Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco. Her work is represented by Robischon Gallery in Denver, Colorado and Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
While living in the Bay Area, Brunson taught at San Francisco State University, the San Francisco Art Institute, Cal State Humboldt, California College of the Arts and UC Berkeley. She moved to New Mexico in 2014, where she now lives and paints on five-acres outside of Santa Fe. The topography and atmosphere of Northern New Mexico's landscape and skies, and her ongoing kundalini meditation practice, are influences in her current work.
For more information about the artist, please visit her website.