On Thursday, Sept. 12, artist Susan Brown, of Sayville, held an exhibit of her Fire Island and Town of Islip collections at Main Street Art & Frame in downtown Sayville.

For over 20 years, Brown has been a central artist of Pure Vision Arts in New York City, a studio for gifted artists with special needs. A 5,000-square-foot space, Brown’s prolific career has filled more than one storage unit of Pure Vision Arts.

For almost 20 years, Brown has been capturing every single moment of everyday life with her unique photographic timing interpretation.

A constant format for Brown is her grid paintings, which seem to be taken from a camera set to do burst shooting, as her subjects so subtly move from frame to frame.

At the start of her art career, Brown would salvage pieces of cardboard while at her job in Friendly’s restaurant and use those as her canvasses.

“She is very much a part of New York’s Outsider Art scene.  Susan is truly an artist.   She draws and paints like one breathes.  There is always such joy, color, movement, a naïveté that belies a discerning eye,” said a representative for Pure Vision Arts.

Brown was born in 1957, and since 1965 has lived in Sayville.

Diagnosed with autism as a young child, she began drawing spirals, women, and cars at the age of 5, and was encouraged by her father, an engineer; her mother, a chemist; and her aunt, a sculptor, to explore these machinations in her mind.

With eclectic interests in portraiture, transportation and landscapes, Brown’s travels from Sayville to Fire Island to Manhattan are lively muses for her art.

Brown was featured on a CBS “Sunday Morning” show segment on Outsider Art, and in publications such as Envision Folk Art Magazine and Out of Art.

To purchase Susan Brown’s artwork, please visit www.susanbrownarts.com.