Brian Belott "A Goosh Noosh"

Zürcher Gallery

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Brian Belott makes deliriously seductive paintings. Using the reverse-glass technique, he builds glitzy, and sometimes gritty, grids that sparkle and twinkle and trick the eye because of their reflectiveness, changing color depending on where and when you look at them. When he invited me over to his studio in Lefferts Garden, Brooklyn, just across from Prospect Park, about a month ago, he had a number of new ones on hand, and with his typical mischievousness, he had recently begun embedding patterned girls’ socks and Silly-Bandz within those sumptuous grids.

But those paintings are just one part of his multifarious art practice, which hops nimbly across mediums. He’s amassed thousands of found photographs and arranged them into moving and hilarious books, choreographed manic and inventive dances and performances, made supremely messy, sensual wet-on-wet paintings (some stacked with food), recorded sound pieces from answering-machine tapes and records, invented languages, and produced at least one certified madcap video masterpiece, for which he lit his hair on fire (he tells that good, long story below).

During our visit, Belott called YouTube a “collager’s paradise,” a phrase that also perfectly fits his art, which is animated by both Matisse and the Marx Brothers, and involves collecting, cutting, slicing, and dicing existing material into a range of new forms, proffering a relentless, freewheeling, and often mysterious joie de vivre. He’s throwing the best party in town, and he wants you to be there. He has a great new joke, and he wants you to hear it. He has a story that’s going to blow your mind. Listen. You’re going to be glad you did.

Belott is also, literally speaking, a great talker, and this conversation is edited and condensed from our visit, which was done as he prepared for “A Goosh Noosh,” his upcoming show at Zürcher Studio in New York, opening September 18, 2012. We started out talking about those ridiculously beautiful reverse-glass grids. —Andrew Russeth, August 15, 2012

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from September 18, 2012 to November 11, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-09-18 from 18:00 to 20:00

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Brian Belott

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