Black Pony Gallery Features Artist Dede Brown

Black Pony Gallery has released an on line solo exhibition showcasing the perform of Bahamian artist Dede Brown.

The exhibition – titled Interior Voices – operates from nowadays [Dec 18] to January 11, 2021 and can be viewed by clicking here.

Curator Lisa Howie said, “Black Pony Gallery is happy to announce the first on the web solo exhibition for Bahamian artist Dede Brown. Featuring primary combined media paintings, the exhibition Internal Voices operates December 18, 2020 to January 11, 2021.

“In this sequence of personal portraits, Brown proceeds her exploration into the human psyche, centering on the strategy of one’s saboteur – that inner voice or voices who can make us query ourselves, often spouting detrimental views and theories, encouraging self-question and at periods inflicting disruption and chaos.

“True to the realm of surrealism, exactly where the unconscious and supernatural are supplied complete reign, the functions may talk to our shared silent suffering or, for some others, evoke the latest context, which is comprehensive of uncertainty.

“Yet as Brown confronts the subconscious by providing it a physical embodiment – 1 that seems dim and ominous – a nearer search at the information will expose an underlying elegance filled with lightness, femininity, and vulnerability.

Dede Brown – Not Just A Customer, 2020 mixed media on paper [20×15, $1,500]:

“Dede Brown was born in Freeport, Grand Bahama and grew up in Nassau. She examined at The Savannah College of Artwork & Design and has a BFA in Inside Design and style, with a small in Photography. For the previous ten yrs she has practiced as a freelance artist and photographer.

“Brown has long lasting sculptures in the Nassau Airport and at BahaMar Resort, and she has participated in various group exhibitions in Nassau and in two worldwide residencies. Brown now resides in Spanish Wells, Eleuthera, where she works from a house-based mostly studio. Her operate is pretty figurative with a potent target on female and androgynous sorts.

Underneath is an exclusive Q&A between artist Dede Brown and curator Lisa Howie:

Lisa Howie mentioned, “Please talk about the narrative features of your operate, notably the saboteur motif is this responsive to the worldwide context or additional of a specific personalized experience?”

Dede Brown claimed, “The concept of the saboteur is definitely some thing I have been checking out on a own stage for some time now, but it was introduced into clearer concentration immediately after paying a great deal additional time in isolation thanks to the recent situations of the world pandemic.

“I am pretty curious about how this strategy manifests in our minds, the purpose it can consider on in our daily lives, routines, associations and ultimately how it affects and influences the choices we make. In several means I have perceived this strategy as darkish, ominous and unapproachable so I thought, what better way to confront it than by providing it a face or some kind of actual physical embodiment.

“As I have moved by this collection it has uncovered a lot of a lot more layers – some are gentle, some fragile and susceptible. I am now considering that probably the saboteur is not only an interfering menace but at situations a guardian, attempting to express warnings and even defend us.”

Dede Brown – The Saboteur I, 2020 combined media on paper [20×15, $1,500]:

Lisa Howie mentioned, “That’s attention-grabbing — the angel in disguise. Your portraits are daring and, in some instances, include organic varieties. In what means is island living embedded in your exercise?”

Dede Brown reported, “As a resourceful individual, I assume one’s natural environment is some thing that generally impacts your do the job, whether destructive or good. We are stimulated by and answer so significantly to what is all-around us.

“I am fortunate to dwell in a quite soothing, serene and wonderful location and I attain a good deal of inspiration from the colors, mild and textures that encompass me. The more I engage with my natural environment, the a lot more apparent the intricate specifics become.

“I like concentrating on the aspects and performing with mixed media enables me so several possibilities to play and continuously carry new facets of my environment into the do the job. The additional I observe this, the more I recognize how considerably it sets a tone and background for my narratives.”

Lisa Howie reported, “Narratives – precisely – and in this exhibition each individual portrait is the lead character in a psychological drama. Surrealism rocked my world on my art journey. Do you share that enthusiasm? Have you been inspired by the components of, or the gamers in, surrealism?”

Dede Brown stated, “I do share your enthusiasm toward surrealism and am fascinated by the use of narrative and symbolism. I am significantly intrigued by the life tale and operates of Frida Kahlo. She unveiled so considerably emotion in her paintings, encompassing what she was dealing with in her lifetime at the time.

“I consider we have been conditioned by societies to bury our feelings, in particular if they are adverse, so naturally art will become yet another outlet for them.

“Jaume Plensa has also been a significant inspiration to me. I like how numerous his is effective are in conditions of scale and medium and how, inspite of their immense dimensions, he is in a position to capture the human spirit in this sort of an intimate and ephemeral way. I have a terrific desire and curiousness about the human issue and attempt to seize these characteristics in my functions as properly.”

Examine Much more About

#Artists

Classification: All