RYAN BRIGGS – “BELOW AND BEYOND” –, JULY 19 – 27, 2014

Ryan Brigg’s first exhibit at Corridor 213 consists of three oil paintings. The largest, titled “ Nothing serious” is quite an anomaly in his oeuvre, for it is the largest canvas he ever painted. BRIGGS is, however, no stranger to large surfaces. His previous artistic life included several years of graffiti work and this experience has, in our opinion, paid off.

BRIGGS is a portrait artist, and… a very unusual one. Rembrandt was praised for his skill of seamlessly mixing the earthly and the spiritual, Freud for absorbing both the conscious and unconscious influences of his subjects in his work. Briggs’ delivers his version of the naked truth by the inclusion of metaphysical energies and attributes that emanate from his subjects: attributes and forces that penetrate, contort and morph every inch of space, matter and time around them. Briggs breaks everything down and builds it up again from ground up. Often, his subjects dissolve and eventually disappear within the fractal tornado he has unleashed for them. Using storms of meticulously positioned fragments, his canvas absorbs, mirrors, reflects, pulses and twitches until it breaks the skin of “time and purpose” and reveals the eternal tumult below. Applying incredible amounts of energy and motion, one canvas and one subject at a time, Briggs rearranges and revamps the entire universe.

Work shown:

Spoiled Rotten, 2014, oil on canvas, 39″ x 51.5″

Long Distance, 2014, oil on canvas, 23.5″ x 65.25”

Nothing serious, 2014, oil on canvas, 120” x 132”

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