Gallery Statement for recent Road Trip exhibit

Travel photos, collected postcards, and well worn maps provide inspiration for Maureen Brouillette's mixed media paintings. Her recent work takes us on a ROAD TRIP through middle America yet suggests a contemporary viewpoint ripe for interpretation.

A ferris wheel hovers over a carnival midway and industrial grade yellow paint signals caution. Architectural snapshots such as these define each painting. With the layering of paint and paper, Brouillette merges reality with abstraction. She integrates elements with gestural, graffiti-like line and quiets bold color with contrasting neutral hues. The result is imagery that has both an energetic rhythm and room to breathe.

Judith Taylor/Gallery Shoal Creek (Austin, TX)

Maureen Brouillette

I'm a painter working with acrylic and mixed media on canvas and paper. Cityscapes and landscapes are my favorite. I teach ongoing watermedia painting classes and do demonstrations, workshops, critiques and jury art exhibits.

Double Take opens July 11 from 7 to 11 pm at the Garret Art Gallery in McKinney, Texas. It's located on the north side of the square. It's part of the 2nd Saturday Art Walk and there is lots going on! This is a two person exhibit with joel Sampson.

I'm teaching Fast and Loose acrylic painting classes the third Tuesday at the Upstairs Gallery in Arlington and the third Thursday at the Artists' Showplace in Dallas. It's fun and different. A current schedule is listed under classes. I'm teaching through the summer too!

I'm doing a Mixed Media Collage workshop in West Palm Beach, Florida February 10, 11 and 12, 2010. For more information contact the Palm Beach Watercolor Society by calling Marilyn Browde at 561-381-0047.

Bird Man by Maureen Brouillette
Mixed Media Painting on Canvas, 20" x 20"