Conversations: Paintings by Brandy Agun

November 24–December 31, 2025

My objective ultimately is to create emotional paintings balancing the content with the design elements I find most pleasing in order to connect with the viewer and our common humanity. Painting for me is a conversation.
—Brandy Agun

Brandy Agun’s scenes of everyday life quietly allow us inside private moments, illuminating emotional, human ties between the people and objects depicted, and the places in which they exist. Originally trained in a highly representational painting style, Brandy has since found herself melding abstract forms of painting with realistic forms, creating a collage of what she really sees.

There is a place where representation and abstraction meet, and it is an exhilarating endeavor for me to push that boundary, allowing some of an image to be clearly understood and other parts more vague, dissolving into a cacophony of interesting shapes and colors.
—Brandy Agun

Following Fitz, Oil on Panel

The resulting paintings are like puzzle pieces for Brandy, focusing on color, shape, light, and design, which allows her the freedom to explore her surroundings as forms that work together. Pulling together visual clues—much like Sherlock Holmes pulling together many types of clues—Brandy presents us with very human scenes, filled with gentle emotions and tender reminiscences.  

Brandy studied painting at the Georgetown Atelier and took courses and workshops at the Seattle Sculpture Atelier, Gage Academy of Art, and the Portland Art Museum. She teaches at the Kirkland Art Center and the Northwest Art Center, and is represented by Fountainhead Gallery in Seattle. Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows across the PNW. 

All works are for sale unless marked by a red dot. Please visit Brandy’s website at brandyagun.com for more details about her work and to contact the artist for purchase enquiries.

­—Gina Cavallo, Curator & Director of Development