My portfolio showcases various series of paintings created throughout my career. My work tends to investigate our relationship with the natural world, with its creatures, with each other, and with ourselves. I make social commentary with a sprinkling of humor, a titch of nonsense, a dash of self-deprecation, and a pinch of bird droppings. See my contact information below and get in touch if you have any questions or if you’re interested in purchasing a painting or commissioning one.
We Want Our View and Eat It Too
Walking the Cranes 
Interview with a Carnivore 
Afternoon Instructions 
Deer Dreams 
Sleep in a Wigwam 
Daily Instructions 
Have Cape Will Conquer 
Prophetic 
What I Did on Summer Vacation 
Paparazzi 
Street Fishing 
So Free Me and My RV 
Hoola Hoopin Western Theme Park 
RVNV 
Please Don’t Harass the Humans 
Clean It Up 
Into the Pink 
The Hive 
Wilderness Adventure 
We Want Our View 
Dancing Purple Bears 
Parking Lot Paddling 
Bison Traffic Jam 
RV Park Speed Bump 
The Screen 
Roadside Attractions 
Seasonal Migration 
Summer Camp
Artist’s statement: I Want My View and Eat It Too explores how we as tourists interact with the natural world and what we expect when we visit National Parks and other beautiful places. These paintings investigate our relationship with the natural landscape, with its wild creatures, and with preserved historic places while questioning our ideas concerning fair use and conservation.
Domesticates
Birth Order 
Family Management 
Running of the Errands 
Sisters 
Red Shoes 
United 
Three 
Boy’s Club 
Thirty Years 
Bound 
Girl’s Club 
Power 
Invisible 
Glued and Tattooed 
Haunted by Bunnies 
Almost Jaded 
Kid’s Club
Artist’s statement: Domesticates explores the influence of relationships, especially the close, domestic bonds of family and friends where the colors and patterns of our daily existence imprint themselves onto us, forming the person we become, the roles we play, and how we view the world.
Exposing the Sneaky Marmot
She Wondered How Long the Sneaky Marmot Would Make Her Keep This Up 
Sneaky Marmots Start Early 
The Sneaky Marmot Had Convinced Her that the World Was Like a Beach Ball 
Lining up the Sneaky Marmots 
She Believed That Her Backside Was Her Best Asset 
Against Her Will, She Was Beginning to Resemble the Sneaky Marmot 
By All Appearances, He Had All His Sneaky Marmots in a Row 
She Assumed She Was Prettier When She Pointed Her Toes 
He Did Not Have the Power to Resist the Polka Dots 
He was the Only One Who Couldn’t See that He’d Been Tricked by the Sneaky Marmot 
They Mistakenly Believed that the Sneaky Marmot Was Going Away 
Occasionally, The Sneaky Marmot Took Her for a Ride 
Somebody Has to Do It 
She Imagined that Supersonic Bicycle Speed & a Pretty Dress Were All a Girl Really Needed 
Marmot Extraction 
He Had Under Dressed for the Occasion and the Sneaky Marmot Was to Blame 
He Believed that He Could Convince the Marmot by Using His Finely Honed Skills of Logic and Argumentation 
A Few of Them Were About to Discover that the Sneaky Marmot Had Led Them All Astray
Artist’s statement: Sometimes the beliefs we hold about the world or about ourselves don’t serve us well. False or misleading perceptions can, at best, lead us into harmless folly, or at worst, cause others and ourselves a lifetime of misery and heartache. Exposing the Sneaky Marmot investigates many versions of self-deception. The presence of a trickster marmot throughout the series embodies the tendency to be misled by our perceptions and beliefs, many of which have long generational ties that are passed along like family heirlooms. These mindsets are formed in childhood and carried into adulthood where they often function below our conscious awareness. I reference old photographs to allude to the temporal persistence of long-lasting familial mindsets and use the landscape at a setting to represent the wild terrain of our own unconscious thoughts and drives. These paintings are twisted versions of grown-up dramas that are humorous on the surface but sometimes dark and insidious underneath with far-reaching consequences.
Tammi Brazee 