Brice Brown "HOMONCULUS"
Schroeder Romero & Shredder
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Schroeder Romero & Shredder presents HOMUNCULUS, Brice Brown's second solo exhibition with the gallery. This ambitious exhibition takes over both gallery spaces and includes new archival pigment prints and sculptures, as well as a site-specific installation composed of 12 colored cast glass tables and a 125" x 650" panoramic wall covering. Using alchemy as a jumping off point, the works in the exhibition explore the act of liberation through transformation--both extreme and subtle. In the works on view, this transformation manifests as a process of breaking down and rebuilding: large-scale pastel and archival pigment prints are built from 18th century etchings of alchemical practices; turkey feathers have been cast in bronze; a 19th century English side table has been altered and cast in 12 different colors; and a Hudson River School-esque panorama wall-covering is composed of digitally manipulated 18th century ornithological etchings. Writing on Brown's work for the accompanying catalogue, Alpesh Kantilal Patel states, "Brown's works are queer. They are unstable signifiers that exist between here and there as well as now and then; and operate on a meta-level through the production of a palpable destabilizing effect. In the process, these works make felt the impossibility of the closure of identity, broadly construed."
Brown's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been written about in The New York Times, TimeOut New York, artnet.com, artforum.com, ARTnews, and Art in America, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Yale University, New Haven, CT; and Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
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Schedule
from October 11, 2012 to November 10, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-10-11 from 18:00 to 20:00