The work of Phyllis Bramson is accomplished on a number of aesthetic grounds. Her use of borrowed iconography lends itself to both decorative as well as narrative traditions, and her use of acid candy colors demonstrates both her willingness to take risks and a high level of skill in balancing flavors, ideas, and constructed mythic scenarios. Her scenes are often "difficult," symbolic of a deeper malaise; a difficulty of being. Her work is also intensely physical. It emphasizes touch, distilling the senses and quirks of the soul into curdled and unsettling thoughts of erotic love and cosmic disorder.

Painting is ultimately about a mediation of the world. The goal of Phyllis Bramson’s work is to articulate this beautifully and curiously by pushing against banality and taking into consideration the psychic realism that hovers between being nonsensical and profoundly meaningful. She infuses her work with parody and coincidence. The Burlesque-like and erotically hypersensitive meander between physical and mental existence.

Her work stresses the idea of looking as a form of intoxication and absorption. The images are based on the co-presence of memory and fiction, suggesting a miniaturized fairy-like illusionary life that offers up all sorts of cosmic possibilities. These are narratives that are as much about existential disturbances (and slippage between reality and fantasy), as they are also about "painterly anxiety." Thus the activity of making a painting becomes a mediation about pleasure, trauma and connections.

Specialties: Mixed Media Painting