Jasmine Iona Brown

Brown’s work combines facial expressions, text and cultural symbols to convey political messages, illustrate a stream of thought, or give voice to the private opinions of her portrait subjects. She is the recipient of a 2017 Puffin Foundation Grant and an Artist Trust GAP Award to paint a series of Byzantine style egg-tempera icons memorializing a few of the many children of color, forgotten by the media, that are lost to violence every year.