Arden Bendler Browning

published to accompany solo exhibition Black Forest at Tinney Contemporary, Nashville

August 17-September 21, 2024

24 pages, full color

essay "The Edges of the Oculus" by Kati Gegenheimer

6x9", available on Blurb.com

"To focus on a memory or draw from observation requires the artist to make hierarchical decision about what is most valuable.   In Bendler Browning's work, the tempo, overspray, line, and drip  serve as relics of observation - a topography of memory mediated through material, time, and distance.  The best paintings reveal truths beyond what we know as fact - they exist out of time, presenting what is possible.  They offer a glimpse into the future or perhaps, what is beyond the frame's edge." 

published to accompany "Off Screen" at Galleri Urbane in summer 2023.

24 pages, 5x8 inches, soft cover.

15 full color images

essay by Jennie Hirsh, titled "Landscape, Layers, and Locomotion".

Available for purchase through Blurb. 

"What Arden Bendler Browning's latest images manage to do beautifully is not only transport us into her other real and imaginary worlds but also to remind us of the precarious predicament that underpins the human condition.  But by painting in analog and digital space, she acknowledges and accomodates a circular form of desire to go while also somehow staying, to remember while selectively forgetting, and to escape to previously uncharted realms through stimulating pathways that can guarantee safe returns, ones that allow her to see the familiar anew." 

See link below.

virtual catalog accompanying the exhibition "Space States and Other Realms" presented with the first Philadelic conference at University of Pennsylvania, July 2023, curated by Jackie Tileston and Rain Gideon.  Essay by Jackie Tileston.  

Fields and Formations : A Survey of Mid-Atlantic Abstraction

published by The Delaware Contemporary in conjunction with the exhibition from September - December 2021 at The Delaware Contemporary, and January - May 2022 at the Katzen Arts Center at the American University Museum.  Illustrated catalogue designed by Glenn Dellon and with essays by curator Kristen Hileman and Philadelphia-based art historian and curator Jennie Hirsh.

out of print; some limited copies available at studio. 

"Places of affect are identified and intensified through technology in the multi-faceted work of Arden Bendler Browning.  The artist begins with small water colors of landscapes through which she has traveled or, during the past year, the locations she had planned to visit before the advent of Covid-19.  Like Maggie Michael, Bendler Browning collages fragments from earlier pieces into these colorful, impressionistic images, using artifacts to carry over meaning as they simultaneously generate new work.  Bendler Browning then inputs the water colors into Tilt Brush, an application that allows her to create extensive, layered virtual reality environments around the landscapes.  After building and exploring this next register of abstraction, Bendler Browning returns to physical paint, sprayed and applied by brush in large scale paintings.  While the circular and elliptical shapes of these physical supports reflect the 360-degree VR experience; ultimately the spatial relationships realized through the digital platform are once again rethought and further abstracted back onto a two-dimensional surface.  The processes of making and viewing Bendler Browning's work are ones of navigating the different realities of interlaced spaces.  Artist and viewer move back and forth constantly from places of memory to places of desire, from places of observation to places of imagination, and from places of physical manifestation to places of virtual discovery." (Kristen Hileman, "Art as Another Place")

Artist interview catalog published by I Like Your Work in conjunction with podcast interview in October 2021.

self published artist book combining drawings and photographs created during a 2 month roadtrip around Australia, January-April 2018.