Ryan Brown

‘Recently my paintings depict familiar quotidian spaces: public parks, suburban gardens, alleyways, and residential streets. Flowers and animals appear alongside brick buildings and wrought iron railings, and light suggestive of threshold moments interacts with rain, urine, smoke, and dew. Sometimes partially obscured people create momentary disruptions in these scenes of muted urban stillness. The places in my paintings are pieced together from drawings and photographs and also memories and impressions of spaces I have encountered in the past. These composites are simplified, smoothed out to foreground the solitude of the subjects existing inside them. Instead of painting physical environments in all their specificity, I am interested in portraying instances of subjective present-ness in these environments, exploring them as sites of nostalgia, daydream, and introspection.’

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