Meghan Brady

Essay by Mark Wethli, 2006

On a recent visit to Meghan Brady’s studio, I was looking forward to seeing some drawings of hers that I’d admired a few months before. I’d thought of them often since that time and was looking forward to seeing them again. She showed me a few things that were equally impressive, but when I asked to see the ones I’d seen before, she replied, “these are the ones you saw before.”

I‘ve heard it said that one measure of a great work of art is that you remember it perfectly after seeing it but when you see it again it’s different than you remembered. I’d always understood and appreciated that idea in principle but until that moment in Meghan’s studio I’d never experienced it first-hand. I wondered how these drawings could look so different than they had the first time around. Was it my mood? The context they were in? The difference was so significant I knew it had to be more than that. (more…)

Meghan Brady

Education

2002        MFA, Boston University, Boston, MA
1998        BA, Smith College, Northampton, MA

Selected Exhibitions

2010
Works on Paper, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, New York
Karen Gelardi & Meghan Brady, Coleman Burke Gallery, New York, NY

2009
Collage: Piecing It Together, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Joe Kievitt, Andrea Sulzer, and Meghan Brady, ICON Contemporary, Brunswick, ME
Anagram, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME
Chunky Monkey, RedFlagg Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings (with Andy Ness & Matt Phillips), Ganser Gallery, Millersville, PA
Algorithms of Art, SNH University Gallery, Manchester, NH

2008
Gangbusters, Plane Space Gallery, New York, NY
New Constructionists, including Gina Siepel, Jena Derman, & Zoe Wright, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME

2007
Summer Group Show, ICON Contemporary, Brunswick, ME

2006
Maine Print Show, CMCA, Rockport, ME
New Work, with Mark Wethli, ICON Contemporary
3 Painters with Gina Ruggeri & Karen Dow, Main Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
CMCA Biennial, CMCA, Rockport, ME

2004
Postcards from the Edge, Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY
CMCA Biennial, CMCA, Rockport, ME

2002
Carefully Drawn, Storefront 1838, New York, NY
Award Winning Alumni, George Sherman Gallery, Boston, MA
New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA

2000
Reinventing the Physical World, Seven Painters, curated by Joel Werring, Campus Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA

1998
Honors Thesis Exhibition, Hillyer Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA

Awards/Fellowships

2002 Dedalus Award, Robert Motherwell Foundation Masters of Fine Arts Fellowship Recipient
2000/02 Constantin Alajalov Scholarship

Bibliography

Art New England, “Spotlight Review”, Summer, 2006
McQuaid, Kate, “Reviews, Three Part Harmony”, Boston Globe, March 23, 2006
McQuaid, Kate, “Reviews”, Boston Globe, June 21, 2002, C19.