Moll Brau
Moll Brau is a multi-disciplinary artist from Shreveport, Louisiana with practices in painting, video work, performance, and installation. Her most recent body of paintings are a collision of the real and imagined with fierce blends of gestural abstraction and figuration. Exploring the relationship between the feminine and the grotesque, Brau continually examines power sources, gender norms, and the strengths and limitations of the human body. Brau’s witty narrative references and visual motifs display modes of triumph over adversity through anguish, beauty, and rage.
Moll Brau earned her BFA from Louisiana State University and is currently based in Austin, Texas. Her CV can be found below featured works on this page.
Agape (Roux)
36" x 48"
Oil, acrylic, moss, daisies, secret objects, clear tar gel on linen
2023
Pragma (When We Were Trees)
30 x 40 inches
Acrylic, clear tar gel, coarse ground medium on linen
2023
Distillation
24" x 30" framed
Chalk pastel on paper
2022
Throuple
48" x 36"
Acrylic and oil on linen
2023
Pool Party (The Lover Archetype)
42" x 96"
Acrylic, clear tar gel, granular tar gel, dried flowers, PVC beads on canvas
2022
Jester
36” x 48”
Oil and gel medium on linen
2022
Moll Brau CV
Education:
BFA Louisiana State University
Exhibitions:
2024:
The Living Room, Solo Exhibition, 12.26 Dallas
Deliverance, Solo Exhibition, Martha’s Austin
2023:
EXPO Chicago with Martha's, Austin, TX
Sweet Dreams, Solo Exhibition, Rusha and Co, Los Angeles, CA
2022:
Dallas Art Fair with Martha’s, Austin, TX
Texan Artists Group Show, Group Show, Seasons LA, Los Angeles, CA
Howl, Group Exhibition, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2021:
Hokey Pokey, Solo Exhibition, Martha’s, Austin, TX
Moll Brau in her studio