Jackie Sarah Brown makes graphite drawings that transform objects, fabric, and architecture into sites of longing and impossibility. Her work constructs visual systems with their own internal logic, where space answers to feeling rather than function, and objects carry the weight of absence.

She asks: How does fabric speak when the figure is gone? What do we make of spaces that haunt our dreams?

Working primarily in graphite — and often beginning with digital mockups — Brown builds tightly framed, compositionally restrained images rooted in emotional tone and spatial absurdity. Her background in interactive art and illustration informs her sense of structure, narrative, and play. Past work includes a residency at Fabrica (Italy) and collaborations with Google, NIAD Art Center, and 826 Valencia.

Her recent series reimagines architectural space as an emotional condition: a desire for buildings that cannot be lived in, only imagined. She lives and works in the Bay Area.