WHEN:
October 24 – December 2, 2024
WHERE:
Paula Cooper Gallery
534 West 21st Street
NY
For more information visit the Paula Cooper Gallery website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“..Transcending classical notions of genre and narrative, Brown consistently draws from a wide range of motifs. The artist’s newest body of work is informed by the remarkable collaborative series of allegorical paintings, The Five Senses (1617-18) by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. Now in the collection of the Prado Museum, Madrid, each painting depicts figures surrounded by bountiful sensual stimuli intended to inspire sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch in turn.
The exhibition presents Brown’s mediations on The Five Senses through paintings, drawings and prints. Here, the full range of Brown’s theme is displayed across media, with monotypes and etchings installed alongside works on paper with ink, watercolor, and gouache. Also included in the exhibition are new paintings in which Brown implements UV printing, a technique which first appeared in the artist's work in 2013. Images of earlier paintings (some even unfinished) are printed onto canvas and then painted over, obscuring and continuing the original work and allowing the artist to explore endless new directions…"
