Artist Jennie Braman writes: “For 15 years, my work has sought to create a language of the body coming into being, a visual rupture of the personal and communal performance of our regular identities. My work (both the act and the resulting drawings) is a verbal and visual wearing of the thresholds between the sacred and the mundane, and relies on repetition, disclosure, accumulation, misinformation, and masquerade. It is a carnivalesque language of the body, and as such, it pushes the use of text, scale, refinement, and access, to track transitions—actions, impulses, reflections—across a boundary of self. I want to bypass the social intellect and empower another place from which to speak the fullness of our physical body into being. Mouth, ear, eye, knee, speaking, yelling, and listening becomes drawing and drawing becomes speaking.”

Braman is a full-time faculty member in Studio Art and Art History at Berkeley City College, Berkeley, California. Among the many classes she teaches is the History of Women in Art, which emphasizes the power of art to reflect and shape human experience. Braman has also taught at other schools, including John F. Kennedy University and Williams College. She works and lives in El Sobrante, California.

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