Jeanne Brasile

Jeanne Brasile is an interdisciplinary artist working in Newark, New Jersey. Her practice is founded on curiosity and observation . Brasile’s sculptures and mixed media works on paper are created with repurposed materials such as antique dictionaries, hand-written ledgers, blueprints, and library card catalogues - objects laden with cultural residue that become entry points for meaning making. As an undergraduate student, Brasile studied art history and studio art. She later earned a Masters Degree in Museum Studies.

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I began this series of shredded watercolor paintings when I at an artist residency in Finland in January of 2024. What I had imagined to be a bleak and dark landscape was bursting with so many colors and textures of the Finnish forest in winter. I was thrilled to experience a variety of blues, greens, pinks, oranges, browns, yellows, and purples in the wintry environs. I hiked through forests, along lake shores and rivers, swam in icy lakes, and walked the hilly countryside. The textures of the forest were equally compelling – threadlike mosses, peeling tree bark, feathery pine needles, and puffy succulent plants. These colorful watercolor collages embody my experiences in nature through colorful collages that double as abstracted landscapes.