Michael Brown 
in the meantime…

March 31 – May 7, 2016

“The in the meantime… pieces were first made in 2006 and I've continued the series since. 'In the meantime' is an expression that seemed to sum up my feelings of frustration and angst, after all it does have the words mean and time in it, nothing is meaner than time, whether you have too much or too little. I start by breaking a mirror (think Henry Rollins on the cover of Black Flag's Damaged smashing a mirror). I take the patterns I like and I recreate them out of stainless steel. The re-creation process is slow and not as gratifying as the breaking part – must have been fun to be Barry LeVa making his glass works, not only are they beautiful but I imagine the labor was enjoyable.”

“Stainless steel to me is a modern material that represents strength and efficiency but nothing in this world is strong or efficient. I like to think I am forcibly embarrassing the material with my own labor (It is no coincidence it is the material of choice for Jeff Koons, same material very different ideas). The cracks fragment your vision in a loose, asymmetrical spider web like image that I find very beautiful. I like the idea of capturing a moment of angst like how sculptors used to capture the world in bronze but stainless steel is the material of our time and no one needs me to make an image that's for sure.”

Michael Brown lives and works in upstate New York. At a young age, the artist was quickly inducted into the forefront of the contemporary art scene with exhibitions at Yvon Lambert and Zwirner & Wirth among others. Since then, his work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Time out New York, and is in prominent collections around the world including The Beth Rudin deWoody Permanent Collection in New York, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, NY, the Rennie Collection in Vancouver, Canada and the collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin in New York.


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