The artwork features a striking green-toned composition, with two figures depicted in a surreal, almost eerie manner. The vibrant colors and intricate patterning create a captivating, dreamlike atmosphere. The subjects, a woman and a bearded man, appear to be in a contemplative state, their expressions and body language conveying a sense of mystery and introspection. The style and technique employed by the artist suggest a blend of realism and expressionism, with a focus on capturing the emotional and psychological essence of the subjects. The piece likely reflects the artist's exploration of themes related to human nature, identity, and the subconscious. ...
Tim Brawner produces a practice of painting that mines the space between the uncanny and the grotesque. Seeking to produce in the viewer a compelling affect of unease, Brawner utilizes the idiom of illustration to render images of alienation, through the purposeful bricolage of disparate representational elements. In each work, a persistently fine, painterly execution meets the artist’s formal drafting process of drawing and montage to achieve what Brawner terms a pathos of ‘weirdness’: a form of defamiliarization which is also a seduction, an entreat, into a strange representational space nonetheless evoking trepidation and dread. These visual chimeras undermine the spectators’ traditional binary frames of reference, eliding at once those of conservative Western Christian morality and those of liberal secular paradigms of Enlightened empathy. ...
