My art practice is an ongoing study of order and entropy. Using photography, assemblage, drawing, and installation, I investigate how time and context transform matter and meaning, negotiating the border between order and chaos.

My three-dimensional work owes a debt to post-minimalism and bricolage. Harvesting found, recycled, and re-purposed materials from my surroundings, I combine and arrange them to uncover unexpected relationships, often producing slyly humorous or uncanny results. The grid is often an implied or explicit structure in my work.

My processes include balancing, hanging, piercing, and leaning, accentuating the precarity and vulnerability of the work. The porous boundary between work and wall or site invites consideration of context and the ephemeral nature of matter. While my manipulation of materials is often minimal, requiring only simple hand tools, their ordinary meaning is altered completely.

Nancy D. Brown

Nancy D. Brown