Ryan C. Brown\u2019s paintings take place in the very moment that the lamp posts turn on \u2013 you know that magical moment. Just before it gets too dark, the amber lights flicker on to hem the paths and leak into alleyways. In these paintings, Ryan creates a curious character study of evening dog walks and nightlife inspired by photos that he takes of the world around him, developing a large archive of screenshots from films, images he\u2019s stumbled across online and of other art pieces. \u201cI\u2019m inspired by impressions of charged and evocative atmospheres,\u201d says Ryan. \u201cOften nebulous memories of places from my childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
These paintings feel warm and cold at the same time, utilising darkness magnificently. In one painting, a car\u2019s headlights beam into the night, but Ryan\u2019s oil painted brushstrokes make the light feel physical, like it is curving down like water. Ryan paints stars in glowing pinholes or celestial snowflakes \u2013 flowers look like foldable paper fans, pets look like spiky cut-outs, and falling urine against a tree replicates the imagery of dancing rain. Each painting has a gentle feeling of petrichor \u2013 the pleasant smell of rain after long summer days.<\/p>\n
Ryan\u2019s playfulness with shape, light and mood is what makes these paintings so eerily familiar, moments caught in the in between. The vision is completely his own; he rotates his paintings every few days in order to find other angles to the scene. \u201cWhen I\u2019m about to start a body of work, I commit at least a week to sketching in a loose and improvisatory way, listening to music, staring into space,\u201d says Ryan. \u201cAt a certain point, these sketches make their way onto canvases. Even at this point, when I\u2019m working on canvas, the composition is likely to change \u2013 it rarely resembles the original sketch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan C. Brown\u2019s paintings take place in the very moment that the lamp posts turn on \u2013 you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-36960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}