Kelsey Brookes “Better Living Through Chemistry”
Judith Charles Gallery
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Judith Charles Gallery presents a solo exhibition of San Diego based artist Kelsey Brookes. The exhibition, Better Living Through Chemistry, is Brookes’ first solo show in New York and consists of entirely new work. The show will open with a public reception on Thursday, November 21st, from 6 to 9 PM at 196 Bowery (by Spring) and continue through January 2014.
From his background in molecular biology, Brookes has taken his knowledge of scientific images and expanded them into extremely intricate paintings that explore the mutability of human consciousness. His painstaking process involves the painting of hundreds of concentric shapes that are both psychedelic and grounded in empiricism.
Explaining his starting point, Brookes says; “Art and science are often, and in my view incorrectly, seen as two opposing poles of a creative continuum. This is a misunderstanding of both. My recent work is a combination of my scientific background and current artistic interest- I have taken my understanding of molecular biology and married it with painting.”
The artist draws from simple scientific line diagrams of molecular structures - transforming them into hypnotizing visual representations of the impact each chemical has on the mind and its experience of reality.
Brookes has had recent solo exhibitions in London, Malibu, Los Angeles and Berlin. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Frederick Weismann Foundation Collection. His paintings also feature as the cover art for the Red Hot Chili Peppers latest record release. The artist has also teamed up for illustration work with fashion leaders including RVCA, VANS, and Insight 51.
Brookes has been featured in numerous pop culture and design publications such as GQ,
Modern Painters, Manor House Quarterly, ARTnews, Playboy, Paper, Juxtapoz, Beautiful Decay, Dazed and Confused, RE:UP, HUCK, SKULL STYLE: Skulls in
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Schedule
from November 18, 2013 to January 05, 2014
Opening Reception on 2013-11-21 from 18:00 to 21:00