Artworks

Betty Brown’s work is defined by clarity, a no-nonsense efficiency and an intriguing, systematic perspective, where cars, houses, and fences are arrayed in the dimension and scale that suit the artist's logic, waking us to a fresh sense of reality.

She often wanted to show several sides of a building at the same time. So, she would.  Houses could turn sideways. Roads might climb to the sky. Fences would turn a corner and lie down. People and cars might not stand straight, but lean at an angle, in a manner that generates a smile. It wasn’t just the color sense of Henry Taylor meeting Genevieve Figgis’ domesticity, but there was an element of Fra Angelico or something joyfully Byzantine, even when North Georgia’s racial politics rake through her memory.