Hilary Brace

Hilary Brace is known for her dramatic, exquisitely rendered cloudscapes. Her images have a photographic veracity, but with their vaporous forms and roiling clouds, they imply spaces that are psychic in nature, almost primordial.

In creating both her drawings and prints, the artist begins without premeditation and her images emerge through an explorative process that allows them to unfold in unanticipated directions. Each image seems a complete meteorological landscape, full of unexpected atmospheric events, making these places both palpably real and surreal at the same time. The artist invites the viewer to surrender to the logic and beauty of this world without allowing it to become familiar.

Brace is the recipient of numerous national and regional awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1993), California Arts Fellowship, and two grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Courtesy of the artist

Click here to read our interview with Hilary Brace about her work.