Eminence Grise Editions is pleased to announce the publication of a significant body of new works by the renowned painter Deborah Brown. Among these remarkable editions is a suite entitled Voyager, which is comprised of one image editioned in six different ways. Another image, Death Maiden, has also been produced in six color variants using Chine-collé. This work is offered individually with only three examples of each version. Danae and Zeus, a third image produced in a single color way, is offered in an edition of 18 examples. All of the works were printed by master printer Marjorie Van Dyke of VanDeb editions.

Deborah brown has commented about the work to which these prints relate:

“My images come from my imagination. Women, stripped of their protective and identifying clothing, navigate a familiar landscape as if in a dream. Female protagonists occupy a variety of spaces–climbing cliffs, paddling canoes and inhabiting treehouses–far from the quotidian activities of civilization. Their nudity makes them seem simultaneously vulnerable and powerful, as if they have returned to elemental or archaic origins. The presence of canine companions implies a departure or exile from a domestic setting, as well as an unseen threat that might require their protective services. The compositions and their implied narratives sometimes suggest contemporary re-enactments of myths from antiquity and the Bible commonly found in the canon of Western Art. My decision to remove the male characters implies a new gender order in which the female characters appear unrestricted by assumptions of female vulnerability and dependence on male actors for their legitimacy. In this body of work, I revisit themes explored by male artists, subverting expectations and readings of familiar Western images while changing the dynamic of the male gaze.”