Colin Brant: 'Dirty Snowball'

8 September - 15 October 2023
  • Dutton is pleased to announce the exhibition 'Dirty Snowball', new paintings by Colin Brant.
     
    The "Dirty Snowball" theory proposes that the building blocks of all life, as well as most of the water, came to earth in the form of giant balls of ice, rock, and dust (comets), that collided with our planet eons ago. In those early primordial swamps amino acids came together to build simple creatures, which turned into more complex creatures, fish, flowers, saber tooth tigers, people, and everything else.
     
     
    Colin Brant
    'Dirty Snowball'
    September 8 - October 15
    Opening: September 8, 6-9pm
  • Brant's paintings respond to this theory by showcasing a variety of plants and animals and their habitats. Aquariums are containers for creatures and reflect us looking in. We see ourselves in the things we observe.  Mountain landscapes fracture and dissolve in light, animals appear then vanish, reflections turn a landscape upside down, everything is in transformation and slipping between the recognizable and fantastical. Whether the subject is plankton or glacier carved peaks, the painting becomes a meditative exploration of how he sees and understands the natural world. Our origins are a mystery and Brant's paintings are a starting point for the imagination to wander.
     
    Brant was the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2022 and has received grants from New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Solo exhibitions include Jeff Bailey Gallery, Adam Baumgold Gallery, and Beth Urdang Gallery, and numerous group exhibitions including Steven Zevitas Gallery, Lucien Terras, Geoffrey Young Gallery, and Platform Space. He attended the University of California Santa Cruz and The University of Iowa and currently lives and works between North Bennington, VT and Brooklyn, NY.
     
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