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.

I was awarded Best of Show in the 2009 and 2005 Southwestern Watercolor Society juried exhibits.

I'm teaching Acrylic Painting Escape classes from January through May of 2010, on the first Thursday of the month at the Artists' Showplace in Dallas and the fourth Thursday of the month at the Upstairs Gallery in Arlington. We will be painting landscape, cityscape and seascape. I am excited about this class because it is an extension of some ideas I have been exploring in my own work recently. I want to share the fun and inspire you to take your work to the next level. A current schedule is listed under classes.

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"