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Meghan Brady Born 1975.

Meghan Brady's paintings, drawings, and prints usually begin with a loosely drawn grid or system which serves as a structure for the other elements in the piece. Sometimes the grid disappears and the elements are held together in an intuited and surprising relationship. Drawing from collage, and decorative arts, Brady employs color, pattern and spatial relationships that imply sources as diverse as New England farm architecture, wallpaper, and Japanese textiles.These prints share with her other work a loose-limbed, lighthearted but earnest spirit that is at once elegant, sophisticated and contemporary. She strives for each of her pieces to have their own sense of balance, symmetry, light, and color.

In 2004, Brady started a suite of five etchings at Wingate Studio in February 2004. The series incorporates a variety of techniques including softground and hardground etching, sugarlift, and spit bite aquatint. In August of 2009, Meghan worked with Andy Ness and Matt Phillips on a collaborative woodcut print, a Wingate first. To see images of this print and the project in process, see our news page or Matt Phillips' page at our site.

In 2010, Brady returned to Wingate with her friend and collaborator Karen Gelardi. Together, they form the collective New Factories, and recently had an exhibition of their collective work at the Coleman Burke Gallery in New York. At Wingate, they have each been working on prints that create abstract environments from triangualr geometric forms. Meghan's new print is now nearing completion. Contact us to find out more.

Brady has taught Painting and Drawing at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME. She is included in the Artist Registry at the Drawing Center in New York City and has shown throughout New England including the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and Icon Gallery in Brunswick, ME.