The Awards Collective was created to feature the works of artist who have received either a Juror’s Award or Director’s Award in ASG’s Online exhibitions.  Pat Brown’s hand sewn exposed-binding book of cyanotype and mixed media images, Benabbio ,received the Jurors’ Award in the unique: alternative processes exhibition juried by DorRae Stevens, Kevin Tully and Amanda Smith.  Pat’s exhibition Blue Moves is discussed in this GalleryTalk.

Artist Statement

“My current body of work, Blue Moves, consists of digitally manipulated dance photos, both singly and paired with other images, mostly botanicals, contrasting and comparing the forms and movements of dancers with those of leaves, flowers, and trees. There’s one where the dancer is portrayed against a Japanese temple wall, and another with the dancers and a map of the cosmos.

The dance images are from slow-shutter-speed photos taken at dance recitals, digitally inverted positive-to-negative, and presented in tones of blue and green. The botanicals are somewhat abstracted by their presentation as negatives rather than positives as well as their presentation in blue-green tones. The title of the series, Blue Moves, alludes to the rapid movement of the dancers, captured as blur, and the imperceptibly slow movement of the botanicals, all tied together in tones of blue. Each, though, is captured by the camera in one still moment.”

Pat Brown
September, 2025

Bio

Pat Brown is an artist and fine-art photographer residing in Austin, Texas.  She is a liberal arts graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been exhibited in numerous juried shows throughout the U.S., and her photographs are included in both private and public collections. She is included in an exhibit currently on view at the Annetta Kraushaar Gallery at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, TX. Her work can be seen online via Instagram.

Artistic Career

I fell in love with photography in 1989 when I took my first photography workshop, a University of Texas informal class.  Over the next several years, I carried on an intense personal study of photography through numerous workshops and seminars, reading, and looking at many images.

I started with 35-mm. color slides, then began to realize that my colors were becoming more and more muted and monochromatic and that I really belonged in the black-and-white world. Getting a Mamiya 6 camera and my own darkroom in 1997 launched me into that world of medium format images and silver gelatin printing.

After the wet darkroom came digital imaging, editing, and printing, as well as the exploration of “alternative” photography forms such as wet plate collodion, platinum, cyanotype, lumen, encaustic, Polaroid transfer. Lately, there has been watercolor, mixed media, and collage. Most of my photographs these days are taken with the iPhone, edited in Snapseed and Lightroom, and printed on various papers with pigment inks.

I have always been drawn to bookmaking and have made many artist books through the years. This gives me the opportunity to explore things thematically and allows for the creative juxtaposition of images and ideas as well as the tactile joy of photos, threads, and papers.

instagram:  @patbrowngemini

link to online exhibition