With an art career spanning more than three decades, Judith Ann Braun
has tested the limits of her artistic musculature. She began as a
self-described “realistic figure painter,” and worked through the
struggles common to anyone who endeavors upon an artistic pursuit, that
of searching for one’s own voice in the chosen medium.
Fast forward to the 21st century where the evolution of Braun’s work has brought us to the Fingerings
series, a collection of charcoal dust landscapes and abstracts
“painted” using not brushes but her fingertips. Braun has a specific
interest in symmetry, as evidenced by the patterns she follows in a
number of the Fingerings pieces as well as work in the Symmetrical Procedures collection. Her fingerprints
are obvious up close in some of the paintings, though a step back and
the grandeur of Braun’s imagination sprawls into a landscape of soft
hills, overhanging trees, delicate florals, and a reflective waterway.
