Maren Brown is an award-winning painter whose abstract work in egg tempera and acrylic has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries. She is represented by Galatea Fine Art in Boston’s SoWa district.

Brown has painted in egg tempera for more than 30 years, often combining it with gold leaf in ways that reference—but also reimagine—the sacred tradition of icon painting. Her acrylic paintings, in contrast, offer a more intuitive and gestural counterpoint while still carrying the structure and depth that come from her tempera practice.

Her work has appeared in exhibitions at the Hill-Stead Museum (Farmington, CT), the New Bedford Art Museum (New Bedford, MA), and the Attleboro Arts Museum (Attleboro, MA). She has also been selected for juried shows by curators including Carmen Hermo (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Alison Rudnick (Metropolitan Museum of Art, who awarded her painting Black Mountain Best in Show in 2025), and Michèle Wije (Yale University Art Gallery).

She has twice been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, where she deepened her exploration of the intersections between tradition and experimentation in painting.