PROXIMITY solo painting exhibition
March 15th - April 27th, 2024
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION
In Proximity, Linnie Brown presents remembered places using fragments of landscapes, architecture, and everyday landmarks that come together to create mental postcards of abstracted human expereince. Using layered shifts in perspective and scale, she creates ambiguities that mirror the effects of time on memory.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Memories do not exist solely on their own; they are persistently entwined with the physical places where they occurred. In my paintings, fragments of landscape and abstracted architecture stand in for everything I have lived through in those places. My art depicts multiple locations simultaneously to convey the impact and accumulation of identity-shaping experiences.
Created through an intuitive process of layering and revision, each painting unfolds gradually. Traces of previous layers, as well as shifts in perspective and scale, give the work a sense of ambiguity and complexity. The process mirrors the idea of the work- negotiating layers and deciding what to hold close, change, or push away.