NYAB Event - Tim Braden “House & Garden: The Abstract in the Everyday”

Tim Braden “House & Garden: The Abstract in the Everyday”

RYAN LEE

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RYAN LEE presents House and Garden: The Abstract in the Everyday, a solo exhibition featuring ten new, large-scale paintings by British artist Tim Braden of interior and exterior paintings that depart from old interiors and design magazines or the artist’s observations in situ. His own personal connection to this subject matter leans on the familiar role of the garden as a part of his English upbringing but also considers a studied look at the ordinary. This body of works takes the age-old subject of house and garden, explored by many artists generations before, and provides a new way of examining this subject by pairing both figurative depictions of actual spaces with related abstract compositions that evoke the mood and atmosphere, which cannot be defined with just imagery.

In the painting titled “House and Garden,” Braden has pared down characteristic elements of the setting- periphery fences, flowing ponds, stone walkways, intimate architecture- which gives a familiarity without the specificity of a place. Hanging beside it is “Jardines,” an abstract painting made using watercolor and acrylic through a staining method that references similar forms and palette from “House and Garden.” Alone, it reads completely abstract. However, as a pairing, they create a dialogue between the representational and the abstract, and convey a deeper understanding of this place. “House and Garden,” particularly in this exhibition, is the key to the abstract compositions that it surrounds, grounding its interpretation in this specific context. Even without this legend, however, the abstract paintings elude to nature and structures of the artist’s intended subject.

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