This surreal artwork features a vibrant, kaleidoscopic composition filled with fantastical elements. The dominant visual elements are the striking red and pink hues, intricate patterns, and fantastical creatures such as a large, open-mouthed reptilian figure and colorful winged creatures. The subject matter depicts a dreamlike, otherworldly landscape with ambiguous human-like figures. The artist employs a distinctive style blending surrealism, psychedelia, and imaginative symbolism, creating a captivating and thought-provoking visual experience. This piece likely reflects the artist's personal vision and exploration of subconscious realms. ...
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. ...
