Olivia Brown

Lives and works in San Francisco, CA, USA

Artist statement

Olivia Brown’s paintings are dynamic, fluid images which attempt to visually convey the sensual, visceral, tangible experience of movement and energetics. Brown believes we all have an innate comprehension of movement and energetics that is not based in language but in our natural animal-body wisdom. She structures her paintings to have a physical relationship to the body, aiming to give the onlooker a visual field within which their eye can roam and through looking, can then register somatically, intuitively, the physical feeling her subject matter. She uses a fluid medium of shellac and dye which captures the immediacy, velocity and momentum of movement in paint.

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