Such a mix of hyper-reality (the kind of reality that can only exist on canvas) and illusion can be disorienting it is difficult to grasp that such complication is simply pigment paintstakingly applied to a canvas with small brushes. Every one of Brown’s elegant arrangements of paint is an idea leavened with humor greatness is simultaneously punctured and paid homage to. Details-a sickly eye, a boneless hand, a bloated toe-repel and attract with the confusion of a vicious joke turned tender. “A fresh and filthy flower, a flourish stilled a streched torso, a face built from air. Best known for borrowing images from the canons of art history, Brown overlays a photograph of a historical portrait with his signature brush strokes in this digital print on archival paper.
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