Jackie Sarah Brown is a visual artist based in the Bay Area whose graphite drawings investigate imagined architecture, absence, and absurdity. Her work transforms objects, fabric, and inhabited space into sites of longing and impossibility.

Each series constructs a visual system with its own internal logic—where objects carry emotional weight, and space responds more to feeling than function.

She asks: How does fabric communicate when the figure is absent? How do we make sense of spaces that haunt our dreams?

Working primarily in graphite, Brown uses both analog and digital tools to build tightly framed, compositionally restrained images. After years working in interactive art and illustration, she returned to drawing to deepen her exploration of emotional tone and spatial absurdity. Her previous work includes a residency at Fabrica in Italy and collaborations with institutions such as Google, NIAD Art Center, and 826 Valencia. Her current series, Unreal Estate, reimagines architectural space as an emotional condition: a desire for buildings that cannot be lived in, only imagined.