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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 manages in turn to be elegant, sophisticated and quite contemporary. She strives for each of her pieces to have their own sense of balance, symmetry, light, and color.

Brady started her 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.

Brady teaches 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.