EXHIBITION STATEMENT

“Remember, I’m With The Cosmos” features paintings and naturally dyed fabric depicting farmscapes that Antonia Brown created during her six month Artist in Residence with the Durham Art Guild.

In these pieces, the artist grapples with her connection to agriculture and continues, uninhibitedly, to choose the path of tenderness, community and reverence. Her focus lies in the little moments of breath, beauty and serenity she holds tight to while farming.

This collection of paintings acts like a journal for the artist and this exhibition seeks to bring those little moments of presence and daily acts of sacredness into the gallery.

ARTIST BIO

Antonia Brown is a visual artist and farmer. Through her art, she is able to emphasize the joy that she has worked to find and foster in her farm community. Brown seeks to create heartening portraits of agrarian Southern life. The emphasis put on joy is not a self deception or willful ignorance of agriculture rather it is a way for the artist to process her past and create new pathways that allow for lightness.

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Curated by Antonia Brown and Dara Baldwin

Presented by the Durham Art Guild