This minimalist artwork features a stark contrast between the deep navy blue background and the off-white geometric shapes arranged in a dynamic, asymmetrical composition. The shapes, including rectangles and triangles, are positioned in a way that creates a sense of movement and visual tension within the two panels. The artist has employed a reductive, precise style that emphasizes the interplay of forms and the power of negative space. This work reflects the principles of geometric abstraction, a significant movement in 20th-century modern art that prioritized a reduction to essential visual elements. ...
Having grown up with a darkroom in the basement of his family home, Josh Brand has always experimented with film and analogue manipulation techniques. After studying in photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, Brand was employed as a commercial printer in New York, where he was again able to use the darkroom facilities, after-hours, to conduct further experiments. Contrastingly, Brand employs the exacting processes of photographic development to create works that are abstracted and hold an element of randomness in their production. Despite their synonymity with photography, Brand’s fragmentary images are made without the use of a camera, and are purely the result of obstructing light from reaching certain areas of a photosensitive surface, using materials such as cardboard and paper. Brand’s work represents a return to analogue in order to re-examine and reinvent its properties, comparable to that of William Basinski’s sound works. ...
