Phyllis Bramson

(Madison, Wisconsin, 1941 - )

North America, American

Phyllis Bramson, who is noted for her use of patterning and lush decoration, describes her work as “infused with lighthearted arbitrariness and amusing anecdotes about love and affection, in an often cold and hostile world.” Bramson creates compositions that are informed by sources as diverse as French Rococo art, Chinese paintings of pleasure gardens and Surrealism. Encounters between the sexes, offering ambiguous, deliberately incomplete narratives, are a recurring theme for the artist.

The artist received her BFA degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, her MA from the University of Wisconsin/Madison and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Grant (1993), Rockefeller Foundation Grant (1997), Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2009) and Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (2014). Bramson’s work has been featured in one-person and group exhibitions throughout the United States and is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, National Museum of American Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, among others.

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