Liz Brown
dal 21/6/2007 al 4/8/2007
Segnalato da
21/6/2007
Liz Brown
Like the Spice Gallery, New York
Brown's recent paintings troll the shallow pool of memory to see if we really catch much in our day-to- day experience. Dinosaurs, battleships, miraculous vans, an indoor undersea paradise, and a machine with all the answers populate this exhibition.
Most Triumphant
Like the Spice is proud to present Most Triumphant:
Paintings by Liz Brown, opening Friday June 22nd in
conjunction with the celebration of its one-year
anniversary. Time freezes and history sits silent in this
collection of majestically deadpan paintings. Building
on her successful first New York solo show at
Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts in Chelsea this exhibition
features work from several new series.
Ms. Brown's recent paintings troll the shallow pool of
memory to see if we really catch much in our day-to-
day experience. Dinosaurs, battleships, miraculous
vans, an indoor undersea paradise, and a machine
with all the answers populate this exhibition. Ships
stage epic battles against a vast and empty ocean.
Vans make Duke's of Hazard style jumps and drift off
towards heaven. Natural and artificial histories battle
each other in chilly silence. Even the forest seems air-
conditioned as painted by Brown. The once and future
king of the thunder lizards, deposed, stands watch
over his diorama.
These epics flattened onto canvas refuse to have their
grandiosity distilled out of them, retaining all the
resonance of echoes. To make immemorial the
victors of nature and society, and transmute them into
living fossils Brown edits out the cobwebs. As George
Bernard Shaw said, "If you can't get rid of the skeleton
in your closet, you'd best teach it how to
dance."
Liz Brown has shown in California, Maryland,
Connecticut and New York. She has been included in
three previous group shows at Like the Spice. In 2005
she was a Space Program recipient of the Marie
Walsh Sharpe Foundation. Her work is included in the
permanent collections of the New York Public Library
Print Collection, the Connecticut Commission on the
Arts and the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport
Connecticut. She earned her MFA from the Mount
Royal Graduate Program at the Maryland Institute
College of Art in 2004. Since then she has taught at
the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center in Laurel, Maryland
and at Corcoran College of Art and Design in
Washington DC. Currently Liz lives and maintains her
studio in Brooklyn.
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224 Roebling Street. Brooklyn - New York