My work explores the relationship between structure and spontaneity through color, texture, proportion, and material process. Drawing from my background in textile design, I create paintings and fiber-based works that examine how systems of order can coexist with the inherent unpredictability of physical materials.
Across both mediums, I begin with intentional structures: grids, frames, repeated units, and linear systems that establish boundaries and provide a foundation for transformation. Within these frameworks, materials introduce variation and movement. Pigment shifts across painted surfaces through gesture and flow, while fiber structures are transformed through wrapping, tension, and dye absorption. These processes allow controlled decisions and unexpected outcomes to exist simultaneously.
Through the intersection of painting and textile, my work examines how different materials can arrive at a shared visual language. Whether through pigment on a surface or fiber shaped through tension and dye, each work reveals the relationship between intention and material response. The resulting compositions exist between order and unpredictability, where structure becomes a catalyst for transformation.
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Anna Brady (b. 1982) is an abstract painter and fiber artist whose work explores the relationship between painting, textiles, and material process. Drawing from a foundation in textile design, Brady creates restrained compositions in which color, surface, and structure operate with the rhythm and tension of woven form.
She received a B.F.A. in Textile Design from the University of Georgia and studied traditional Japanese textile techniques at the Kawashima Textile School, where she focused on Yuzen, Katazome, and Shibori processes. These influences continue to inform both her painting and fiber practice, where layered pigment, repeated gesture, wrapped forms, and dyed surfaces reference the visual language of weaving and resist-dye traditions.
Brady’s work has been exhibited at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Gallery Chimera, Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance, and the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts. She has presented work at the Atlanta Art Fair and the Hamptons Fine Art Fair and is represented by Dunwoody Gallery, where she held a solo exhibition in 2025. Brady is an upcoming 2026 resident at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences and a 2026–2027 Studio Artist at Spruill Studios. She lives and works in Atlanta.
