Pacific Coast
Spotlight Artist
Heather Brown
Pacific Coast
Artist Statement
My paintings are intuitive and idiosyncratic.
Imagery develops through improvisation and the accrual of actions, reactions, considerations, and revisions.
I draw on the idioms of modernist abstraction. Still, I try to abandon the function and authority of historical gestures and reimagine the act of painting to suit my needs.
The language I have developed is filled with and emptied of meaning. It is epic in proportion and utterly banal. Nightmarish, perfunctory, funny, and sometimes sweet.
Imagery develops through improvisation and the accrual of actions, reactions, considerations, and revisions.
I draw on the idioms of modernist abstraction. Still, I try to abandon the function and authority of historical gestures and reimagine the act of painting to suit my needs.
The language I have developed is filled with and emptied of meaning. It is epic in proportion and utterly banal. Nightmarish, perfunctory, funny, and sometimes sweet.
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