Oh, American artist Phyllis Bramson …♥! I absolutely LOVE the weird and wonderful mixed media worlds she creates. In fact, I featured Phyllis in my book, A Big Important Art Book – Now With Women … how could I not, after reading her artist statement:

“I use images that are infused with lighthearted arbitrariness and amusing anecdotes about love and affection, in an often cold and hostile world. Mostly, I am making work that percolates forth life’s imperfections: that doesn’t take decorum all that seriously, refusing to separate matters of taste from larger questions about “good behavior.” The paintings are reactions to all sorts of sensuous events, from the casual encounter to highly formalized exchanges of lovemaking (and everything in between). Miniaturized schemes, which meander between love, desire, pleasure and tragedy; all channeled through seasonal changes. Burlesque-like and usually theatrical incidents, that allow for both empathy and “addled” folly, while projecting capricious irritability with comic bumps along the way.”

Her most recent work {yes, the unicorn!} is currently in a group show, titled “Round Hole/Square Peg”, that opened this past weekend at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts. The show will be up until June 6, 2020.

{Round Hole/Square Peg also features the work of Lisa Marie Barber, Erin Hayden, Cody Hudson, Janis Kanter, Sheida Soleimani, Chris Uphues, Caroline Wells Chandler and Wendy White.}