Brett Amory

Newcastle

American contemporary artist Brett Amory is widely considered one of the breakthrough artistic talents of the past year. He is best known for his „Waiting“ paintings, a body of work that has spanned the last decade documenting figures and landscapes in the Bay Area. The new collection Waiting 101 currently debuts at Outsiders Gallery in Newcastle.

The compositions in the exhibition focus on Amory’s newfound relationship with technology, and the implicit freedom it allows in his work. Delving into documentation methods which new modes of ambulatory technology offer, Amory experienced a metamorphosis in his painting preparation and application. With intimate, firsthand knowledge of the many ways that technology can affects the lives of those it touches, Amory explores the avenues it’s opened up for him as an artist in Waiting 101.

Amory began the Waiting series in 2001 with paintings based on photographs the artist has taken of ordinary city architecture and random people who he saw daily but never spoke to. He feels especially drawn to individuals who look lost, lonely or awkward — those who donʼt appear to fit in socially. As the title suggests, the Waiting series depicts how people are distracted by constant internal dialogue, preoccupation with memories of the past and/or concern for the future, never able to live in the present moment. Amoryʼs work attempts to visually represent this concept of disconnection, detachment, and anticipation, conveying the idea of transient temporality that exists in the moments of our daily lives.

The Outsiders

April 20th – May 26th, 2012
77 Quayside
Newcastle NE1 3DE
UK

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