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RICHARD BROWN
EXHIBITION
OPENING RECEPTION
Artist in attendance
The Exhibition
The Statement
Days for Hours is a new series of ten paintings by RICHARD BROWN. As the artist explains, “The title comes from a line in a song I really love. In the context of the rest of the song it’s difficult to make sense of that one line, and although the line is clearly meaningful, I don’t have access to that meaning.”
This sense of resonance without resolution underpins this series of new paintings. Brown’s work often evokes the complex experience of personhood, with its intertwined joys, fears, and uncertainties, through paintings that are both formally rigorous and emotionally open. Rooted in the dynamics of seeing and being seen, his exquisitely crafted use of line and colour invites prolonged observation and a quiet attentiveness to ambiguity, where meaning is felt rather than fully known.
The Work
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RICHARD BROWN
The Artist
RICHARD BROWN
B.1960
Richard Brown’s paintings are rich with the motif of vessels, both in a literal and symbolic sense, blurring the line between the two. His work embodies the paradox of simultaneously representing something and being that very thing. Through various layers of obscuration and framing, Brown’s images invite viewers into what he refers to as “simultaneous gateways and barriers to understanding through sight.” These works evoke the complex experience of personhood, with all its intertwined joys, fears, and uncertainties, rooted in the ability to see and be seen.
Brown earned a BFA Honours from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Drawing Program and serves as the Director of the School of Visual Art, at the Alberta University of the Arts.
