Brown utilizes iconography as her themes of carnival, fashion, camp, and art history swirl together in deeply intuitive and complex compositional puzzles, achieving a harmonious anxiety.
Heather Brown explores ideas of gender, feminism, camp, and the unconscious through her highly stylized cotton candy maximalist scenes. Brown utilizes iconography as her themes of carnival, fashion, camp, and art history swirl together in deeply intuitive and complex compositional puzzles, achieving a harmonious anxiety. Boldly feminine, Brown's work challenges any archaic notion that suggests there is any reason not to be such. She sees in the carnival the beauty of excess and over-decoration combined with a frivolity that is taken very seriously; Brown seeks a form of balance through contrast.