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Phyllis Bramson
dal 14/4/2004 al 15/5/2004
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14/4/2004

Phyllis Bramson

Littlejohn Contemporary, New York

Seasonal Pleasures provided by the kindness of women. New work. Painting ultimately suggests a relationship to one's world and Phyllis Bramson's goal is to articulate this beautifully and curiously. She consciously pushes against banality, taking into consideration some psychic realism that hovers between being nonsensical and profoundly meaningful. At one point or another, she is infusing her collaged paintings with strategies of parody, arbitrariness, the ephemeral and some conjecture about love. Burlesque-like and erotically hypersensitive, meandering between physical and mental existence, her paintings take on the notion of somebody's desire to behold them.


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"SEASONAL PLEASURES PROVIDED BY THE KINDNESS OF WOMEN"
NEW WORK

Painting ultimately suggests a relationship to one's world and Phyllis Bramson's goal is to articulate this beautifully and curiously. She consciously pushes against banality, taking into consideration some psychic realism that hovers between being nonsensical and profoundly meaningful. At one point or another, she is infusing her collaged paintings with strategies of parody, arbitrariness, the ephemeral and some conjecture about love. Burlesque-like and erotically hypersensitive, meandering between physical and mental existence, her paintings take on the notion of somebody's desire to behold them.

The idea of looking is a form of intoxication and absorption. The images she uses are based on the co-presence of memory and fiction suggesting a miniaturized fairy-like illusionary life that offers up all sorts of cosmic possibilities. The narratives are as much about existential disturbances (and slippage between reality and fantasy) as they are about "painterly anxiety". Thus the activity of making a painting becomes mediations between pleasure, trauma, and connections. Sometimes, the difficulty in looking might actually be symbolic of a deeper malaise---a difficulty of being. Ms. Bramson's paintings reflect a medium that is not only about the need to see, but it is also the medium of "touch". Distilling and submerging curdled matter such as the senses, emotional heat and quirks of the soul into unsettling ruminations about eroticized love and cosmic disorder.

Finally, Bramson's paintings are projections about affectionate feelings in a hostile world played out against operatic opulence, refined and dressed to reflect the terrible melancholy of nostalgia and loss.

Phyllis Bramson received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her MA in Painting at the University of Wisconsin, her BFA in Drawing and Painting at the University of Illinois; she also attended Yale University on a Yale/Norfolk Art Scholarship. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout the US and is in numerous important museum collections. Among the grants and fellowships she has been awarded are from: The Rockefeller Foundation Residency/Grant; John Simon Guggenheim; Marie Walsh Sharpe; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Senior Fulbright Scholar; Louis Comfort Tiffany. For further information and visuals please contact Jacquie Littlejohn or Kim Toscano. Bramson's work may also be viewed on the following

In the image: Acts of Theft, 2003.

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