Santa Barbara News Press
Swimming is the thing, both as physical act and as metaphor, in Brady's oil and graphite on wood panels. Her "Swimming Series" finds oddly cropped, faceless studies of swimmer's legs slicing through blue-green water, with rhythmic trails of bubbles and motion lines enlivening the compositions. Seen as a series, we get layered impressions. The sense of tangible fluidity and the liberating act of swimming are duly noted, but so is a hypnotic visual abstraction bolstered by the dizzying power of repetition. It's the Monet "Haystacks" effect, in action and very much in motion.