This year over 400 artists responded to my call for work, making the process of choosing ten paintings especially challenging and exciting. I would like to publicly thank all of the artists who sent work for me to look at: it was humbling to see how much great painting is happening out there.
Read More50 Memorable Painters in 2015
I am honored to have been included in PoetsArtists’ “50 Memorable Painters” in 2015. Below is a screen capture from the PDF of the issue.
Menendez, Didi, and John Seed. "50 Memorable Painters (2015)." GOSS183 Publishing House, Bloomington, Illinois. Special Issue of PoetsArtists, Vol #70. (2015): pgs. 22-23. Print.
50 MEMORABLE PAINTERS
published by GOSS183 in 2015
Special PA (PoetsArtists) issue curated by John Seed and Didi Menendez
Featuring art from:
Alexsander Betko ▪ Jeffrey Bess ▪ Charis Carmichael Braun ▪ Ali Cavanaugh ▪ Matthew Ivan Cherry ▪ Erica Elan Ciganek ▪ Ben Cressy ▪ Gabriela G. Dellosso ▪ Emanuela De Musis ▪ Shawn Fields ▪ Ron Francis ▪ Zoey Frank ▪ Patrick Earl Hammie ▪ Graham Harwood ▪ Mark Heine ▪ Erika B. Hess ▪ Jen Hitchings ▪ Milan Hrnjazovic ▪ Karen Kaapcke ▪ Michael Kozlowski ▪ Valeri Larko ▪ Brianna Lee ▪ Kim Leutwyler ▪ Shana Levenson ▪ Zachari Logan ▪ Susannah Martin ▪ Renee McGinnis ▪ Darian Rodriguez Mederos ▪ Sylvia Maier ▪ Shie Moreno ▪ Rachel Moseley ▪ Judith Peck ▪ John Philbin Dolan ▪ Serena Potter ▪ Nadine Robbins ▪ Beverly Rippel ▪ Cesar Santos ▪ Victoria Selbach ▪ Ed Smiley ▪ Kyle Staver ▪ Barry Smith ▪ Albert Leon Sultan ▪ Emily Thompson ▪ Alexandra Tyng ▪ Conor Walton ▪ Nick Ward ▪ Thomas Wharton ▪ Margaret Withers ▪ Meg Wolensky ▪ Stephen Wright
How to Make the Most Out of an Artist Residency
First-time artists-in-residence may unconsciously load all their eggs into one basket, expecting their experience will be The Solution needed Right Now (also assuming it to be Once-In-A-Lifetime). However, that kind of thinking strangles the creativity anticipated to blossom. Give yourself the tools—resilience, commitment, honesty—to be aware of your environment, inside and out, and to adjust when things develop in a way you haven’t expected.
Read MoreWhy Should an Artist Seek Out a Residency?
The concept artist residency is synonymous with “space and time.” Residencies are founded on the belief that at some point during an artist’s career she or he may have neither the desired space nor required time to create. While every artist might agree that there are not enough hours in the day to do his or her work, whether full-time or stealing moments, there are more reasons to take advantage of a residency besides simply seizing time and space.
Read MoreReady for Your Artist Residency?
I want to share with you some of my best tips—and some ideas that might surprise you—to help you pull it all together for your upcoming residency.
Read MoreCharis J. Carmichael Braun #HungryGhostsArtExhibition
Her painting “Where Do We Go From Here?” is a powerful, disturbing work by one of the few artists in the show who has focussed on the murder victims.
Read MoreJuror Award - Representational Art in the 21st Century
I am so pleased to announce that my work, "Andrew in the Woodpile (Daemmerung)" has been selected as a Juror Award by the curator James Lancel McElhinney in the Representational Art in the 21st Century exhibition at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
McElhinney selected "artists charting new territories, expanding the representational canon through the process of observation" and I am honored that my painting was recognized as such among the outstanding artists selected for the exhibition which included colleagues Diana Corvelle and Noah Buchanan. See the entire exhibition.
Charis J. Carmichael Braun
Originally published: http://www.thenewyorkoptimist.com/CharisJCarmichaelBraunJan18_2015.html
Lucid Visions at Panepinto Galleries
Bringing together local and international artists based in Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Manhattan these selected works speak to the endless possible deviations from reality as envisioned by an unfettered mind.
Read MoreHuman Brevity
In the age of instantaneous messaging, constant updates on news feeds, disposable anything and everything, lives broken down into shorter and shorter segments, catering to our waning attention spans – the works in Human Brevity question whether the soul or the internet is the path to immortality.
Read MorePoetsArtists #57
I am happy to share that images of my work have been included in Issue #57 of PoetsArtists, published by Goss183.
Menendez, Didi. "Charis J. Carmichael Braun." Poets and Artists, Issue #57, September 2014: pp. 15-16. Print.
Cover image, PoetsArtists Issue #57
POETSARTISTS #57
published by GOSS183 in September 2014
curated by Didi Menendez
Featuring:
Poets : Leila Ammar ▪ Jan Ball ▪ Nin Andrews ▪ P.H. Davis ▪ Carlton Fisher
Artists : cover photo of Bryce Ramming by Michael Auer ▪ Jorg Dubin ▪ Charis J. Carmichael Braun ▪ Alvin Richard ▪ Tristan Pigott ▪ Eric Daniel Almanza ▪ Shawn Huckins
Collaborations : Paul Beel & Grace Cavalieri ▪ Kate Lutzner & Victoria Selbach ▪ Angela Hardy & Lorraine Currelley ▪ Daniel Maidman & Nin Andrews ▪ Judith Peck & Pris Campbell ▪ Robbie Robb & Larry Lawrence ▪ Judith Peck & Robert Lee Brewer ▪ Debra Livingston & R. J. Slais ▪ James Needham & Melissa McEwen ▪ Jeff Faerber & Denise Duhamel ▪ Matt Calavecchia & Ken Taylor ▪ Debra Balchen & Laurie Kolp ▪ Cesar Conde & Duriel Harris ▪ Timothy Robert Smith & Bill Yarrow
ALUMNA PROFILE: CHARIS CARMICHAEL BRAUN
BE INTERESTED. Be passionate. Be curious - absorb more than you think you can. You'll carry it all with you your whole life.
Read MoreMetrocard Mosaic
This extraordinary mosaic is a celebration of faith in Christ within the diversity of their community. The process for the creation of the artwork was designed to offer an opportunity for everyone to participate.
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MetroCards Reborn as Art
There are two thousand lucky New York City MetroCards upcycled as zoetropes, impressionist cityscapes, shunga-stylized erotica panels and nail-polished pug portraits at the Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again exhibit, and we stopped by the Sloan Fine
Big Things Are Made of Small Packages...
Charis Carmichael Braun, another repeat Single Fare rider, gives a glimpse of an amazing project she was involved in with her Church. She also is
Facebook, Curator of Culture
As an institution of higher learning with a long tradition of upholding the art world’s “traditional values and skills,” we, the Graduate School of Figurative Art, find it difficult to allow facebook to be the final arbiter – and online curator – of the artwork we share with the world.
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2010, metrocards, mixed media, 60 x 200 in.
The Fellowship Mosaic
The mosaic tells a visual story with favorite Bible passages, Christian symbols and Bible stories. Like traditional stained-glass windows found in many churches, our artwork shares the hope, joy, faith, trust, peace, love and grace we have in our Savior. (These words are even hidden in the mosaic.)
Read MorePeople's Choice Award
“Study for ‘Creation' is a color study [or a series of images interpreting Christian doctrines as seen through a Lutheran perspective,” says artist Charis Carmichael Braun, the People’s Choice Winner.
Read MorePeter Sacks: Paintings
Menand, Louis., and Sacks, Peter., ed. Peter Sacks: Paintings. exhibition catalogue; New York, Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery; New York, NY: Paul Rodgers/9W, 2010. Print. (design, typesetting)
New Ulm book showcases 120 historic sites
A New Ulm native and photographer for The Journal, Braun volunteered to lead the effort to compile and design a 130-page book, an "active pursuit of one’s local history.”
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