"The Look Stains (2442 - 2460)," 2004, Mixed media on paper, 77 x 40 inches Brad Brown Landscapes and Mugshots and (32 Witnesses) Haines Gallery is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition with Brad Brown. After a tremendously successful first exhibition of installations from "The Look Stains" series, an immense body of work that the artist has worked on since 1987, Brown continues to investigate these pages of drawings in new and engaging ways. "Landscapes and Mugshots" refers to the current state of "The Look Stains" and creates a framework for our understanding of this new series of works. "The Look Stains" are comprised of thousands of small multi-media drawings and experiments on paper that infuse elements of chance, control, release, repetition, obsession, and destruction, and bear the many markings inherent in the accumulation of the patina of time. Although the artist has continued to rework and reconfigure the existing pages of drawings - he is no longer introducing new ones. As Brown states, "This body, which had once been always growing and always changing, would now only be about diminishment. Now each installation dislocates from the body and the project diminishes. The cyclical process of "The Look Stains" has been flattened out and hammered into a line that stretches unmistakably toward a conclusion. Now, each installation is only a dismantling of a project that has already ended". This exhibition is composed of a series of more than a dozen new installations nailed directly to the wall, which has been the artist's primary presentation for the work. He has also chosen to exhibit six small installations that can be viewed recto or verso and are thus framed so that they are visible on both sides. Lastly will be a series of plywood panel paintings entitled "Witnesses", which have been a conceptual counterpoint to "The Look Stains" since its inception. They are comprised of the drop cloths and rags from the studio that were used through the time he created "The Look Stains" and are painted upon in a single quick notation or gesture. Brad Brown was awarded the Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship at the San Francisco Art Institue in 1999. He was an artist in residence on the ARCUS project in Moriya Japan in 2000; at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County, and at the Vermont Studio Center both in 1997. Brown currently lives and works in New York City. Exhibition: April 22 - June 5, 2004 Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri 10:30am - 5:30pm, Sat 10:30am - 5:00pm Haines Gallery also stays open until 7:30pm on the first Thursday of every month Haines Gallery 49 Geary Street, Suite 540 USA-San Francisco, CA 94108 Telephone +1 415 397-8114 Fax +1 415 397-8115 Email info@hainesgallery.com www.hainesgallery.com |
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