R.E. Brown

The Stumping Zoo Begins to Execute

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The collages of R.E. Brown are dizzyingly dense with images. He creates shrine-like compositions devoted to a menagerie of animal icons and ghostly goddesses, the surfaces of which team with life. Layers of transparent, randomly chosen, found images make these works mysterious and haunting. However, the graphic compositional devices work well to hold theses swirling specters well in place. There is a dark undertone to this work; ghouls and devils intermingle with pin-up girls and creepy cupids. They are unbelievably intriguing to look at and without detail shots wouldn’t come across half as well as I’m sure they do in person. Luckily, his website is rich with detail views. The work is divided into several separate series, each of which is well covered on the site.
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