Eve Brown
Being enchanted with this world involves being with all of this world. Being in love requires us to accept grief. Feeling joy requires us to know pain. Watching the spring bloom requires us to know the tight squeeze of the winter bud. One cannot exist without the other.
light leaves this prism is an incantational installation exploring the interconnection of all things and the odd joy-pain within that. Rainbow light leaves the prism in part because of the tight squeeze of the prismatic structure, but that squeeze is exactly what breaks the seemingly singular light into its radiant multitudes.
light leaves this prism utilizes the structure of the shed as the “prism” and the light that filters in to explore how the feeling of rigidity can transform into uncatchable vastness. This installation passes words fraught with boxy rigidness (“I”,“woman”, “sex”, “pleasure”) through the wisdom of the prism. The hand sewn nets act as microscopic lenses-suspending trash, collage and evidence of process, and rooting them down into a large ceramic woman who has herself been shattered into pieces- revealing multiplicity. What filters in as singular or rigid, filters out into endless multitudes, revealing watery edges, and blurring the lines between self and everything at once. This show explores stretching the erotic imagination as the root for constructing a larger sense of connection to this world. It’s an incantation for a more vivid aliveness that spills out from rigid individualism and through play explores the messiness and ever-evolving nature of what it means to be human, of the both/and nature of existence.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Eve Brown holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College where she studied painting, sculpture, poetry and digital media. Brown also received the Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship to study at the Yale/Norfolk Summer Painting Program. She is the recipient of the Idea Capital Grant and also of the Nexus Fund Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. She was awarded a six week residency at the Maitland Art and History Museum in Maitland, Florida as well as a two-week residency at Volatile House in Montezuma, GA. Brown has shown work at Georgia Tech, the Atlanta Art Fair, Atlanta Contemporary Art and the Gadsden Museum of Art. Brown is a teacher and teaches children, teens and adults the art of play (the kids teach her this!). She leads workshops at Google on somatic drawing and play. She currently lives, works and teaches in Atlanta, GA, where she was born.