Artist Talk: Saturday, September 11, 11a.m.

Michael Brophy’s exploration of the landscape touches on a broad range of subject matter in this exhibit, titled Outside. Large and medium size canvases present images like docks, driftwood, industrial containers and tunnels, exploring a broad range of ideas that relate to Brophy’s longstanding interest in a sense of place, and the fascinating intersection of human and natural history. Regarding the current direction of his painting, Brophy says “(w)hereas before I was drawing the space in my paintings, now I’m working the image, wet on wet, out of large fields of paint. I’ve come to work in a more abstract and minimalist way. The horizon has gained more importance, the images more singularity; the paint is more open and direct.” His physical and conceptual understanding of painting gives his canvases allusive power and mythic impact. The result is dramatic, probing and refined.