Ashlynn Browning is an American artist best known for her abstract paintings – its geometric forms, put together in a process of layering.
Browning was born in 1977. She got her Studio Art and English BA at the Meredith College of Raleigh and her Painting and Printmaking Master of Fine Art at North Carolina University.
When this artist creates her artworks, she never makes a plan or follows a study – what leads her artistic expression is intuition or even accident. Ashlynn Browning is close to classic Abstract Expressionist method where one is to mark a mark, and then respond to that mark, and so on.
Ashlynn uses charcoal, oil pastel and graphite to create a mixture with paint. Until 2006, she mostly worked on paper. Afterwards, she chose panels to work on and by doing so, oil painting started dominating among her techniques.
If we are to search for some touchstone in Browning’s art, those would definitely be a geometrical forms and stacked forms, grids and networks as well. Also, she pays a lot of attention to colors – usually, they strictly depend on her current emotional state and a sphere of interests… However, Guston pink is constant in her work.
Browning holds grants and residency fellowships from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, United Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
The artist is represented by IdeelArt.
Featured image courtesy of IdeelArt
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Year | Exhibition title | Museum/Gallery | Solo/Group |
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2015 | Uniquely Human | GaddyHamrick Gallery, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2014 | Group December Show | Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA | Group |
2014 | Foundations | Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2014 | Across the Board | if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC | Group |
2014 | Real Beauty | Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC | Group |
2014 | Pairs | Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ | Group |
2014 | New Geometric Constructs | Artspace, Raleigh, NC | Solo |
2014 | Surfaces + Structure | Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA | Solo |
2013 | Macro | if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC | Solo |
2013 | Ashlynn Browning: New Paintings | Twin Kittens Gallery, Atlanta, GA | Solo |
2013 | Group December Show | Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA | Group |
2013 | Independents | Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC | Group |
2012 | Geometry | Carrboro Town Hall, Carrboro, NC. | Group |
2012 | Contemporary Carolina Abstraction | Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC | Group |
2012 | New Angles | Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC | Solo |
2011 | Personal Geometries | UNCG'S Elliot Center Gallery, Greensboro, NC | Solo |
2011 | Geometry Personified | Vista Studios/Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC | Solo |
2011 | Winter Show | Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC | Group |
2011 | Faction, ArtStreet: Studio D | The University of Dayton, OH | Group |
2011 | Collective Consciousness | Artspace, Galway, Ireland | Group |
2011 | Carolina's Got Art | (traveling exhibition), Arts & Heritage Center, North Augusta, SC | Group |
2011 | Carolina's Got Art | (traveling exhibition), Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC | Group |
2011 | New Works: Annual Juried Exhibition | Artspace, Raleigh, NC (Juror, Melissa Peden) | Group |
2010 | Carolina's Got Art | Atherton Mill, Charlotte, NC (Juror, Mario Naves) | Group |
2010 | Unwrap Your Mind | THAT Gallery, Hong Kong | Group |
2010 | Color Fields, Forms & Fractures | if ART Gallery, Columbia SC | Group |
2010 | Geometric Constructs | Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2010 | Papergirl Project | Dugg Dugg, Charlotte, NC | Group |
2010 | North Carolina Artists Exhibition | Progress Energy Center for Performing Arts, Raleigh, NC (Juror, John Beerman) | Group |
2010 | Meet Ashlynn Browning | if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC | Solo |
2010 | Hexagons | Grids & Webs, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC | Solo |
2009 | building/burning/growing | Siskate Gallery, Charlotte, NC | Solo |
2009 | Works on Paper | Gallery Pantone 278, Charlotte, NC | Group |
2009 | Carolina's Got Art | Atherton Mill, Charlotte, NC (Juror, Brice Brown) | Group |
2009 | New American Paintings | Juried Exhibition in Print #82 (Southern edition), The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA (Curator, Ron Platt) | Group |
2008 | Landscape | Hallway Projects, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2008 | North Carolina Artists Exhibition | Progress Energy Center for Performing Arts, Raleigh, NC (Juror, Dr. Larry Wheeler) | Group |
2008 | building/burning/growing | Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC | Solo |
2007 | Bridging the Inner Landscape | Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC | Solo |
2007 | Tangible Gestures | Artspace, Raleigh, NC (Curator, Leah Stoddard) | Group |
2007 | The Kindness of Strangers | Helm Gallery, Tacoma , WA | Group |
2007 | Letters | Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, England UK | Group |
2007 | New Works: Annual Juried Exhibition | Artspace, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2006 | Drawing x 3 Artists | Vignettes, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2006 | Everything Falls Apart | Nested, Carrboro, NC | Group |
2006 | Introductions '06 | Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA | Group |
2006 | New and Hot | Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh NC | Group |
2006 | New Works: Annual Juried Exhibition | Artspace, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2006 | Mixed Media | Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC | Solo |
2006 | New Mixed Media Works | Meredith College, Raleigh, NC | Solo |
2005 | New Drawings | Artspace, Raleigh, NC | Solo |
2005 | Immediacy | Vignettes, Raleigh, NC | Solo |
2005 | Drawing on the Moment | Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC | Solo |
2005 | New Members Exhibition | Artspace, Raleigh NC | Group |
2004 | Abstraction | Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh NC | Group |
2004 | Joan Mitchell Foundation 02,03 Grant Recipients Exhibition | CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY | Group |
2004 | The Triangle's Best Art Part II | Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2004 | Surface Matters | Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC (Curator, Joie Lassiter) | Group |
2004 | Marked Time | Artspace, Raleigh, NC | Solo |
2003 | Blind Lines | The Artscenter, Carrboro, NC | Solo |
2003 | MidWinter Paper | Bickett Gallery, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2003 | Three Emerging Artists | Duke University Law School, Durham, NC | Group |
2002 | Coterie Treize | Bickett Gallery, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2002 | Selected Works | Red Hat Office Building, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2002 | New Works | Bickett Gallery, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2001 | Graduate Student Exhibition | McIver Gallery, UNC | Group |
2000 | NC Women Artists: 20th Century Trends | Meredith College, Raleigh, NC | Group |
2000 | Meredith Faculty Exhibition | Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY | Group |