Sumi ink on paper

28 x 22

Jennie Braman is fulltime faculty in Art at Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA. She is a graduate of John F Kennedy University’s MFA in Arts and Consciousness and received her BA in Art History at Williams College. Her work has been shown at the de Young Museum, Sonoma Museum of Visual Arts, and Richmond Art Center, among other local venues. Select works can be viewed at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, SF.

I am electrified by the idea of leaping, the leaping in the creative process when ink, word, and form brings us to something unknown. The figures are in transition, hybrid beings. They are emerging stories, as possibilities with which to move forward in such complex and dynamic times. These bodies coalesce in the foot or claw, where humanity transcends its limitations revealing its vulnerability.