Ryan Brown
Ryan Brown’s work has been inspired by the notion of Modernism, which explicitly rejects the ideology of representing reality. He makes use of the works of the past, reprising, incorporating, recapitulating, and revising them into new forms. “To possess the forms of the past is to inject new life, to animate the inanimate,” he states. Brown is also interested in the authoritarian and machista aspect of Minimalist, Bauhaus, and Suprematism art. Artists that belong to those schools were white, straight males. He establishes a parallelism between the square way of thinking of the Bauhaus artists and the nazi thinking. The radicality of the Minimalist credo, “I am what I am”; “A black square is a black square.” The artist employs a wide range of methods and mediums in order to transform the material from new to old, thus mimicking the aging effects of time as a metaphor for the exhausted, expired, and re-contextualized original. Brown’s work often reflects the tensions of conflicts of opposites–representation, abstraction, present, absent, real, imaginary, willful, accidental–not by traversing the space between but by resting at the point where they converge.
Brown has had solo exhibitions at Galeria OMR in Mexico City and Y Gallery in …
Ryan Brown’s work has been inspired by the notion of Modernism, which explicitly rejects the ideology of representing reality. He makes use of the works of the past, reprising, incorporating, recapitulating, and revising them into new forms. “To possess the forms of the past is to inject new life, to animate the inanimate,” he states. Brown is also interested in the authoritarian and machista aspect of Minimalist, Bauhaus, and Suprematism art. Artists that belong to those schools were white, straight males. He establishes a parallelism between the square way of thinking of the Bauhaus artists and the nazi thinking. The radicality of the Minimalist credo, “I am what I am”; “A black square is a black square.” The artist employs a wide range of methods and mediums in order to transform the material from new to old, thus mimicking the aging effects of time as a metaphor for the exhausted, expired, and re-contextualized original. Brown’s work often reflects the tensions of conflicts of opposites–representation, abstraction, present, absent, real, imaginary, willful, accidental–not by traversing the space between but by resting at the point where they converge.
Brown has had solo exhibitions at Galeria OMR in Mexico City and Y Gallery in New York. His work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as Voorkamer in Belgium, 80m2 in Peru, Stenersen Museum in Oslo, and The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit, and Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill.
Courtesy of Galeria OMR
