Brett Amory will have a new print available soon titled, “Waiting #179” via Hashimoto Contemporary. It is a 26″ x 26″ Giclee and is a signed/numbered edition of 100.
On sale Friday, June 13th at a random time HERE.
“Waiting #179″ by Brett Amory. 26″ x 26” Giclee. Ed of 100 S/N.
Brett Amory will have a new print available this week titled, “Bleecker Bob’s via Spoke Art. It is a 26″ x 26″ Giclee, signed/numbered edition of 100, and cost $100. The first 20 copies in this run will be labeled HPM and will be personally hand embellished by the artist with several layers of paint. The HPMs will be $350 and limited to only 20 copies. Email Spoke Art for availability. On sale Friday, September 20th at 3pm PDT HERE.
“Bleecker Bob’s (9pm-10pm)” by Brett Amory. 26″ x 26″ Giclee. Ed of 100 S/N. $100
Brett Amory will have a new print available soon titled, “Bob’s Donuts” via Spoke Art. It is a 26″ x 26″ Giclee, signed/numbered edition of 100 (#’s 1-20 will be hand embellished) and cost $100 (regular) or $300 (hand embellished).
On sale Friday, January 18th at approximately 3pm PST HERE.
"Bob's Donuts" by Brett Amory. 26" x 26" Giclee. Ed of 100 (#'s 1-20 hand embellished) S/N. $100 (regular) or $300 (hand embellished)
Brett Amory has an exhibition opening this past weekend with 5 Pieces Gallery and the works titled, Lil’ Homies can now be viewed.
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 don’t 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. Amory’s 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.
At first, the series, depicted travelers waiting underground. But as the paintings evolved, the people ceased to be exclusively travelers, and began to emphasize figures selected from anonymous snaphots of city streets. Although the experience of waiting remains, the perception of it has changed from one of mundane task to one leavened with transcendence.
The series has also charted the evolution of an artist—the reductive elements of the compositions provide an outward echo of the inner states of the figures. By reducing the elements of the painting as far as possible, a frozen moment is extended.
View the works now HERE.
Brett Amory has 2 new prints available titled, “Waiting 123” & “Waiting 127” via The Outsiders. They are each 32.5 x 31cm Hand-finished photopolymer etching on Hahnemuhle 300gsm paper, signed/numbered editions of 20 each, and cost £125 ($200US) each.
On sale now HERE.
"Waiting 123" by Brett Amory. 32.5 x 31cm Hand-finished photopolymer etching. Ed of 20 S/N. £125 ($200US)
"Waiting 127" by Brett Amory. 32.5 x 31cm Hand-finished photopolymer etching. Ed of 20 S/N. £125 ($200US)
Gallery Openings/Exhibitions
Thinkspace is pleased to present Dirty Laundry, an exhibition of new work by painters Brett Amory and Adam Caldwell. Amory and Caldwell each mobilize their unique representational strategies to invoke the modern day disconnect between time and space, self and other, and present and past. Amory’s atmospheric preoccupation with memory, the moment, and nostalgia, is dynamically in contrast to Caldwell’s abrupt composites and recombinations of imagery, from sources spanning mass media to antiquity. Both artists approach their medium as a means of problematizing temporal identity, and the social experience, by exposing the nitty gritty polarities and paradigm shifts of an increasingly fractured reality of the self. Opening Saturday, August 4 at 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Sneek Peaks
Brett Amory (Interviewed HERE) will have a new print available later today titled, “Waiting #140” via Sebastian Foster. It is a 24″ x 24″ Giclee, signed/numbered edition of 100, and cost $100. On sale Tuesday, July 3rd at sometime in the morning HERE.
"Waiting #140" by Brett Amory. 24" x 24" Giclee. Ed of 100 S/N. $100
Brett Amory (interviewed HERE) has a new print available titled, “Waiting #138” via The Outsiders. It is a 74.5 x 56cm 4-color Screenprint with hand painted details on Velin Arches Blanc 300gsm paper, signed/numbered edition of 20, and cost £250 ($403US). On sale now HERE.
"Waiting #138" by Brett Amory. 74.5 x 56cm 4-color Screenprint, hand-finished. Ed of 20 S/N. £250 ($403US)
Meet The Artist: Brett Amory
Hazy, dreamlike, meditating, quiet-unfullfilled anticipation. Hopeful, yearning, deconstructing, urban…..waiting. Brett Amory’s ‘Waiting’ series highlight heaviest of these elements in such a unique and delicate manner that if you blink it could all go away.
411posters got to sit down for a quick Q & A with Brett Amory and he gave us some insight into his past and current projects as he gears up for this weeks solo exhibition titled Waiting 101 at The Outsiders Gallery in Newcastle, UK.
Brett Amory
411posters: Where are you from and what is your art education background?
Brett Amory (Amory): I am originally from Chesapeake Va. I moved to the bay area in 1996 to go to the Academy of Arts. I was a film major at first but eventually switched over to fine art.
411posters: How did you get started in painting? What were your first paintings like?
Amory: I started painting about two years after I moved to San Francisco. I was skateboarding and playing music with some artist so I started drawing which eventually led to painting.
411posters: What mediums do you use to create your art?
Amory: I have experimented with a lot of different mediums but I primarily use oils.
411posters: What/who inspires you to create?
Amory: My surroundings inspire me the most. People and places I see on a day to day influence my work more than anything else.
411posters: Take us through the process of your art from concept —> process —> final piece.
Amory: My work starts with observation. If I see something that has a certain feeling, I take a picture. Now days most of the work I make is for shows. When I’m getting ready for a solo I take hundreds of pictures over the course of a few months and slowly narrow the images down. Once I have about 20 or so that go together I start painting. I usually edit about half of what I paint.
411posters: How did the ‘Waiting’ series come about and how different is the concept of it from when you first started it, to where it is now?
Amory: I started the Waiting series in 2001 but it was more about people in transit. I was living in San Francisco and working in Oakland so I was taking the train to and from work. I noticed how there was this disconnect and how everyone seemed to be somewhere else. The work was pretty much about people waiting to be somewhere else. I stopped the series in 2003 and experimented for a few years. I came back to the series in 2007 but the idea was less about people in transit and more about not being in the present moment. Every show I do I treat as a sub series within the series.
411posters: What does the term ‘negative space’ mean to you and how does that apply to your ‘waiting’ concept?
Amory: When I came back to the series in 2007 the feeling of the work was my primary focus. I felt by stripping down the environment the viewer would be forced to focus on the feeling of the work first and the aesthetic second.
411posters: Do you expect to find any resolve in your ‘Waiting’ series? Or are the characters disconnect a lifelong human condition?
Amory: The only thing I can hope for is that when the viewer is in front of my work they are in the now.
411posters: What aspect of your work have you found the most challenging thus far?
Amory: Figuring out what I want to say.
411posters: Any misconceptions of your work that bother you?
Amory: Some people think I only paint overweight people.
411posters: Who are some of your art influences?
Amory: The past year I have been looking at Stephen Shore, Robert Adams and a few other photographers.
411posters: List some of your favorite music, movies, and art work.
Amory: Boards of Canada, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Slayer. I really like the movie City of God and Dreams. I saw some of Velazquez paintings last year at the National Portrait Galley in London and was blown away.
411posters: Art, like life, is an ongoing progression of evolution and change. Where do you see your art headed in the next year(s)?
Amory: I really dont know. I just hope I can keep moving forward and do what I love everyday.
411posters: Tell us a bit about your upcoming exhibition/projects.
Amory: I have a solo with The Outsiders (Lazarides) in Newcastle April 19th and a solo at Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco in October.
411posters: What words/phrases best describe your art?
Amory: Abstract realism.
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Brett Amory Waiting 101 opening this Thursday, April 19th at The Outsiders in Newcastle, UK.
Brett Amory will have his “Waiting #96” print available later this week via Spoke Art. It is an 18″ x 24″ Giclee, signed/numbered edition of 100, and cost $50.
On sale Saturday, March 10th at 3pm PST HERE.
"Waiting #96" by Brett Amory. 18" x 24" Giclee w/deckled edges. Ed of 100 S/N. $50
***A very limited number of hand embellished proofs will also be made available, first to our collector list. If you would like to reserve one of these special hand painted variants, please contact spokeartgallery@gmail.com