Bio

Braun’s art mirrors natural forms with biomorphic dystopian edges. In the viewer’s mind the shapes are familiarly organic yet there is a tension as one struggles to comprehend the life cycle stage being anthropomorphized.  Is it a nascent form or one going through the throes of death? Or more simply: is it a cocoon or is it a skeleton?

Her work is heavily influenced by her interest in nature and science.  As a child, dinnertime conversations were a blend of her mother attending to a growing family’s needs and her father sharing updates from the scientific community- specifically his occupation: testing metallurgical samples- often by x-ray.  Braun’s current sculptural work in many ways blends these two; nurture and science or Mom and Dad.

Movement, texture and complexity of form are integral as well.  Her hope is that when approaching the viewer will be drawn in by the relaxed floating form; then intrigued by ever- changing views of the work- seeing both through and around simultaneously.  Texture, shadow and line add to the multidimensional cornucopia of delights.  Her materials are selected to guide your eyes across the surface and equally allow you to pause for contemplation. ing the power of the object.  I have created the object, but the object has liberated itself and gone beyond.

Eileen Braun: Education and Honors

BA, Sculpture and Art Education, Indiana University

Eileen Braun: Selected Exhibitions

Open Spaces: Espaces Ouverts, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Featured Artist,New Orleans LA., 2021-2022


Questionable Origins, Solo Show, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2020


Delineate, Graver’s Lane Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 2019


Friends from Social Networks, Thomas Dean’s Fine Art, Atlanta GA, 2019


Traces, Thomas Dean’s Fine Art, Atlanta GA, 2019

Eileen Braun: Public Collections

Arthur Goldberg, Teapot Collection, MA

Ron Isaacs, Cup Collection, Berea, KY

Meditech Art Collection, Atlanta, GA

Sara and Bill Morgan Art Collection, Houston, TX

Sonny & Gloria Kamm Teapot Collection

Eileen Braun: Publications

MESA Contemporary Arts Museum 38th Annual Crafts exhibition, Mesa, AZ, 2017

21th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition & Catalog, 2016

Boston Home Magazine, Spring, cover and page 93, 2016

16 CERAMIX: Creative Claymakers, Cover image, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Terminal-E, Atlanta, GA, 2015

NICHE Magazine, 2015 Prize Winner, 2015

NICHE Magazine, 2014 Prize Winner, 2014

The State Of Clay, Lexington Arts And Crafts Society, Lexington, MA, Catalog, 2014, 2009, 2007

Atlanta Home and Lifestyles Magazine, January 2014

14 E-Merge: Contemporary ALT Artists, Hartsfield Jackson Airport, Terminal T, Atlanta GA, 2013

500 Teapots 2, Lark Books, 2013

Reflections Georgia Women Artists, Nat’l League of American PEN Women, GA, 2012

17th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, Catalog, 2008

Professor Anne-Bridget Gary, Department of Art & Design, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, “Visual Arts/Vulnerability: Tactile Senses, Fragile Words: Clay, Fibers and Language, Symposium for the Arts in Society, New York University & the American University, Paris, France, 2007

Silent Conversations, Craft Alliance St. Louis MO, Catalog, 2007

Form, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta GA. Catalog, 2007

Clay Times Magazine, Vol. 13 No.4 July/August, the Gallery Page, 2007