Local artist, Tammi Brazee, will be showcasing her series, Human/Nature, for the kickoff show at 224 W Colorado, Telluride Arts HQ Gallery West.
The Human/Nature series began as a mashup of animal and human behavior, an exploration of mate seeking and the power of pheromones, visual cues, adornment, competition, attraction, and ritual. In this series, there are four very large, sensual women; Tammi gave them complete control over their own bodies and sexuality by making their canvases much larger than the others. Their titles give them absolute authority to select with whom they share themselves. While this series is humorous on the surface, the topic, of human sexuality, is a complex and sometimes emotionally loaded subject.
Colorado has been Tammi Brazee’s home for over two decades. She is a professional artist and science geek, holding two graduate degrees, one in environmental science and the other in visual art. This unusual combination of interests has had a profound influence on Brazee’s work, keeping it suspended somewhere between recognizable reality and imaginary narrative.
