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Room 4
Seen as a totality, this room exists in a series of tensions – between aesthetic purity and referential decay, art historical allusion and experiential revulsion: 'I like my paintings to be sitting nervously on a fence. Neither one thing or another.' Brown's progression here is seen at its most concentrated, a species of wit that combines allusion with dark comedy, the whole brought together in his trompe l'oeil play with deep impasto and ceramic smoothness. It is an encounter that is at once revelatory and disturbing, leaving the onlooker in a state of creative and enriching confusion.
Works in this room
- Kill Yourself 2002
Oil on panel
82 x 68.5 cm (32.2 x 26.9 in)
The Sander Collection - On Hearing of the Death of My Mother 2002
Oil on panel
119 x 88 cm (46.8 x 34.6 in)
Private Collection - Tart Wit, Wise Humor 2007
Oil on panel
144 x 108.5 cm (56.6 x 42.7 in), oval
Private Collection - Debaser 2009
Oil on panel
100 x 75 cm (39.4 x 29.5 in)
Collection the artist - The Andromeda Strain 2000 TBC
Oil paint on acrylic over plaster, vitrine
35 x 32 x 30 cm (13.8 x 12.6 x 11.8 in)
Collection Rudolf and Ute Scharpff - Deep Throat 2007
Oil on panel
152 x 122 cm (59.8 x 48 in)
Private Collection, London - Suffer Well 2007
Oil on panel
157 x 120 cm (61.8 x 47.2 in)
Collection of Danielle and David Ganek