NYAB Event - David Brown “Urban Scrawl”

David Brown “Urban Scrawl”

The Painting Center

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The Painting Center welcomes David Brown, a prominent figure from Toronto’s creative community, for a solo-exhibition titled Urban Scrawl.

In his latest series of paintings, David Brown explores the limits of the encaustic medium while balancing non-representational image and abstract space. His lyrical and constructivist approach contrasts delicate line-work and hard-edge geometric forms against graceful, gestural brushwork. He works in successive layers of applied, scraped-off and covered-over wax in a potentially endless process of revision and discovery. His colour palette places cool pastels tints over warm tones and lamp blacks to articulate a hierarchical relationship between fore and aft. Urban culture is a dominant theme defined in these narrative pieces, with a hint of childish whimsy peaking through the layers.

“I am inspired by urban culture and chaos. In the city, signs, symbols, myths and traditions combine to portray varied threads of human history,” says David Brown. “I create abstract encaustic paintings that reference these voices. For me, these paintings represent an important visual bridge for the emotional growth we all experience.”