PostChrome
APRIL 8-12, 2024 @ Patty & Rusty Rueff Galleries East
Yue-Kong Pao Hall, Purdue University
552 W Wood Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907
M-F 9am-7pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, April 11th, 4:30pm
Reception: Thursday, April 11th, 5:30pm
Postchrome is a nod to the postindustrial hangover of the Midwestern United States, squinting through chrome mirrors and split windshields at the region's prolific past and degraded present. Banal daily moments of today combine with nostalgic images of the region’s yesterday. Mounds of corded tires behind the pole barn, gleaming chrome letters off patinaed Cadillacs, a dusted work coat clinging to the banister. These floating moments ebb between eras and auras in reflection of self and cultural influences.
Stacked layers become internal explorations of the postindustrial midwestern psyche - reveries of my understanding of self, encompassed in the degraded influences of the past and the rusted landscape of the present. This dogpiling of imagery explores what it means to be of-and-from a region by-and-for yesterday. Utilizing classic American automotive imagery from the glorified 1940’s to the 1970s, these cropped texts and fragmented icons become reflections on the Fordist boom and its monolithic machines of lore.
Through layers of enamel, silkscreen, lithographs, and oil, reflections of self appear and fade in waves of chaos and calm. Varying from tenderly rendered moments to desperate swirls of thrown color, the works reflect the varied states involved in introspective analysis. At times anxious and convoluted, others calm, clear and contained.
The importance of these works is not in the elements themselves but their union.
The importance is in the mass and the mess.
Pricelist available upon request
Contact the artist at: grantmbrownlowart@gmail.com
or
Request from gallery staff
PAST EXHIBITIONS
2024 44th National Print Exhibition, Artlink, Fort Wayne, IN (Curator Sachi Yanari-Rizzo)
Press Play: National Juried Exhibition, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI (Curator Janice McCoy)
Collage/Assemblage: Beautiful and Strange Fragmentation Juried Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL (Curator David Reif)
2023 Roy Presents: Grant Brownlow, Sarah Hess, Jeff Schofield, Eric Tuck-Macalla. Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
Celebrate Print: Juried Print Exhibition, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS. (Curator: Taro Takizawa)
SYNT Flat Files: Spring Cleaning, The Front Gallery, New York, NY
Frogman’s Staff Exhibition, Ana Mendieta Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Optical Impermanence - III, University of Iowa Visual Arts Building, (3 works)
Iowa City, IA
Limited Edition, The Workshop, Columbus, IN
The Art of Speed II, Gallery Forty-Two, Indianapolis, IN (Curator: Mary Morgan)
2022 Small Works 2022, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
Optical Impermanence International, Impact 12 International Printmaking Conference, (2 works), Bristol, United Kingdom
Seven Deadly Sins:Greed Frogman’s Staff Portfolio 2022, Frogman’s Printmaking Workshop, Omaha, NE. Organizer: Jeremy Menard, Director
SLEEK: The Art of The Helmet, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, Indianapolis, IN (Curator: Amiah Mimms)
The Art of Speed, Gallery Forty-Two, Indianapolis, IN (Curator: Mary Morgan)
Abstraction II, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL (Juror: David Reif)
Our Shared Future, SGCI Printmaking Conference, Madison, WI
Optical Impermanence, SGCI Madison, WI (Organizer: Jennifer Scheuer)
Optical Impermanence, Purdue University - Patti and Rusty Rueff Gallery, group exhibition, West Lafayette, IN (Organizer: Jennifer Scheuer)
2021 2021 Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition (Honorable Mention Award), The Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (Juror: Tylon J. Sawyer)
Go Make a Thing, ARC Gallery Chicago, IL (Juror: Jessica Gondek)
BLINK – One Night Only Art Show, Brew Detroit, (two-person exhibition), Detroit, MI
Art in The Fast Lane, Vestige Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Open Call 2021, Black Box, Dearborn, MI
35th West Michigan Art Competition, LowellArts, Lowell, MI(Juror: Richard Brinn)
2020 Send It, Hard Gallery, Collaborative group exhibition, Detroit, MI
2019 Art Buddies Vol. 12, Hard Gallery, Group Exhibition, Detroit, MI