up front w/ RICHARD BROWN

Days for Hours is a new series of ten paintings by RICHARD BROWN (Associate Professor, Drawing). As the artist explains, “The title comes from a line in a song I really love. In the context of the rest of the song it’s difficult to make sense of that one line, and although the line is clearly meaningful, I don’t have access to that meaning.”

This sense of resonance without resolution underpins this series of new paintings. Brown’s work often evokes the complex experience of personhood, with its intertwined joys, fears, and uncertainties, through paintings that are both formally rigorous and emotionally open. Rooted in the dynamics of seeing and being seen, his exquisitely crafted use of line and colour invites prolonged observation and a quiet attentiveness to ambiguity, where meaning is felt rather than fully known.