Brady Fern is a visual artist based in Austin, Texas. Brady's work explores abstraction through painting, printmaking, collage, installation, and video. Her practice is centered around expressing emotions through color and light and mirrors patterns in nature. She has a BFA from Auburn University, has shown her work around the country, and has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Drop Forge & Tool, Chautauqua School of Arts, and Nocefresca artist residency in Sardinia.
My first love is painting, I love the physicality of paint. I love painting large and allowing random mark making to happen, responding as I go. I find myself in these brush marks and drips. Color feeds my soul and painting makes me happy.
Color & Light
When I’m in my studio creating and see light coming in through my window, it hits me in a moment I can not describe… beauty, awe, some kind of transcendence.
During my residency at the Vermont Studio Center, I started to video this light and that’s how I started using light as a medium in my pieces.
I am captivated by the slow flicker and movement of light shapes. After altering the color, speed, and composition of the video, I project and layer it with different shapes of dyed and painted canvas, becoming a light collage.
I find these Illuminated layers of light and color to have a very calming effect and use them in meditation.