Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. @ Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

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Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. @ Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

February 5th, 2022 by fstop

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr, Slow want, 2020

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
January 27 – February 26, 2022

“For the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, Brown presents new portraits and abstract photographs that reflect on materiality, memory, and intimacy. Two large sculptures—with shapes akin to a wall and a box— explore the structural aspects of images through variations in their depth and spatial on. What follows is a text by New York-based curator Katherine Adams.

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.’s new body of work explores the image as a space of ellipsis, in which works’ affective and spatial intimacies exist on the threshold of the inexpressible. In these new photographs, images sometimes seem to separate out from their material supports. Even in close-up portraits, subjects and expressions don’t quite find resolution within the image—strong hues and brightly lit faces seem to deflect our attention from the subjects’ inner world. New portraits yield intense, combative, and sometimes uncanny scenes that are at the same time tender and graceful. In more abstract works, Brown reveals areas of visual friction and pictorial indistinction where we might have sought out clarity of form. These images challenge pictorial legibility, but not through refusing circulation. Instead, they remain open to the indeterminate and complex feelings in which language is latent, silent.”

Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
7 Franklin Place
New York, NY 10013

Location: New York, New York City Type: Exhibition

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