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.