Roger Brown at Kavi Gupta

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Brown, along with all the Chicago crew, precursor(s) to today's painter-infatuations, the rendering and the digital and the surreal modernity that binds them.  Good to see their resurgence with. Imagists who seemed to predict the smoothness and cartoonification whose resemblance to our world we obviously identify with. From the bones of comics, airbrushed magazines, and wry smile of advertorial psychosis, predicting the look we would come to associate with internet's advent and smooth-muscle CGI, a repetitive cartoon cage, a future forecasted rather than appropriating its look now is impressive, absorbing all the nervous energy of today's iconographies, the stark clarity we cant't make sense of.

Roger Brown at Maccarone

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Brown's odd dealings with pictorial space is  an aloof indifference manifesting a psychotic smile, strung out. The psychedelic fringe burnt-out to the ashy darkness of 70's interior design. The remains of the day, hungover. Brown's repetition is anxiety ridden, claustrophobic and nervous.