TAG Member Artist Karen Hochman Brown discusses her solo exhibition "Botanic Geometry" with Shana Nys Dambrot, now showing at Alhambra City Hall Art Gallery through July 31, 2020.
Karen Hochman Brown
Botanic Geometry
June 1 – July 31, 2020
Alhambra City Hall Art Gallery
111 South First Street
Alhambra, CA 91801
Karen Hochman Brown uses math and science to digitally dissect the natural world.
The Alhambra City Hall Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibit with Los Angeles-based artist Karen Hochman Brown whose digital photographs have redefined the possibilities of abstraction. Taking inspiration from nature’s intricate patterns, delicate colors, and ethereal shapes, the artist constructs symmetrical forms from source material she photographs from botanic gardens around the world. The photos are mapped kaleidoscopically and undergo extensive digital intervention.
In previous work the artist engaged questions about cultural identity. Her works referenced Judaic iconography with their six-point structures and formed the basis of the artist’s technical, expressive, and conceptual investigations. Currently, Hochman Brown’s subject has evolved to a broader consideration of the natural world and its irreducible makeup of fractal geometries. Comprised of multiple layers of floral imagery, Hochman Brown isolates and pieces together their disparate elements into abstracted kaleidoscopic tapestries. The artist’s painterly process utilizes various digital photographic editing tools and software in her meticulous manipulations of tonality, brightness, and saturation to create an illusion of depth.