Tammi Brazee

While a hint of an accent reveals Maryland roots, Colorado has been Brazee’s home since 2001. Returning to college as a “late-bloomer,” she now holds two graduate degrees, one in environmental science with an emphasis in ecosystems and the other in visual art with an emphasis in painting. This unusual combination of interests has profoundly influenced her work, keeping it suspended somewhere between recognizable reality and imaginary narrative. Brazee’s primary love is painting; through it, she investigates human relationships with the natural world, its creatures, others, and themselves. She gathers photographs that she has taken and those from public archives, creating collages as references for her paintings. Through this process, she makes social commentary with a sprinkling of humor, a nip of nonsense, a dash of self-deprecation, and a dose of deeper meaning.

Website: www.tammibrazee.com

IG: @tammi.brazee