Brandy Gibbs-Riley
Pattern becomes an expressive force rather than a functional outcome, allowing her to explore the dynamic tension between minimalist order and ornamental complexity.
BRANDY GIBBS-RILEY | Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
Mills
24 x 24”, digital collage / archival pigment
on Hannamuhle photo rag
$500
Berner Cross
24 x 36”, digital collage / archival pigment
on Hannamuhle photo rag
$750
Scattered
40 x 40”, digital collage / archival pigment
on Hannamuhle photo rag
$2000
Artist Statement & Bio // Brandy Gibbs-Riley is a Boston-based artist whose abstract mixed media work unfolds at the intersection of painting, collage, and textile design. Her compositions begin as hand-built layers of paint, ink, paper, and acetate, forming luminous fields of transparency, shadow, and light. These tactile explorations are later digitally refined, extending her studio practice into a fluid dialogue between material process and contemporary image-making.
Alongside her fine art practice, Brandy has worked extensively as a graphic designer and textile designer, experiences that deeply inform her visual language. Guided by repetition and rhythm, her work evolves through modular systems and underlying, geometric frameworks.
Pattern becomes an expressive force rather than a functional outcome, allowing her to explore the dynamic tension between minimalist order and ornamental complexity. In addition to her work on paper and cloth, she also collaborates with interior designers and architects to create custom designs in wood and glass for retail, commercial, and hospitality applications.
Brandy’s influences range from 20th-century Modernism and historical ornament to cross- cultural visual traditions encountered while studying and teaching in Europe and Australia. A former professor of graphic design and design history, she brings academic investigation to her practice while maintaining an intuitive and process-driven curiosity.
Raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Brandy has always found inspiration in the city’s 18th- century Moravian architecture, folk art, and the bold silhouettes of steel mills. She is equally inspired by the colors of coastal and mountainous regions of New England, where she has lived, worked, and studied for over 30 years.
CURATORIAL STATEMENT
Boston-based artist Brandy Gibbs-Riley creates work that we think feels structurally intelligent and deeply relaxing. Her abstract mixed media compositions unfold at the intersection of painting, collage and textile design—hand-built layers forming luminous atmospheres of transparency, shadow, and light. These tactile beginnings evolve through digital refinement, bridging material process with contemporary image-making in a way that feels seamless and forward-thinking.
Her background in graphic and textile design gives her work a sophisticated architectural backbone. Repetition and rhythm guide each composition through modular shapes and subtle geometric frameworks. Pattern becomes expressive —an exploration of tension between minimalist order and graphic complexity, perfect for any room in a residential setting, from a sophisticated nursery, office or entry to welcome guests.
For healthcare environments, this comforting balance is powerful. Serene abstraction has been shown to reduce stress and quiet visual noise and Brandy’s work does that. Her layered fields of light and structured calm create spaces where patients, families and staff can breathe. Her work soothes without dulling the eye. It restores without becoming invisible. In medical offices, wellness centers and hospitality spaces, her compositions provide the perfect pathway to emotional grounding.
For designers and institutions seeking art that merges scholarship, craftsmanship and tranquility, Brandy Gibbs-Riley offers visual impact rooted in both beauty and intention. Dig deeper into her offerings and find fun textiles and more.
—Juniper Rag