ERECTION IN THE MONTH OF SAMUEL BECKETT’S BIRTHDAY

Everett Brown  and Rachael Browning are pleased to present "Erection in the Month of Samuel Beckett's Birthday", a new sculpture group. Composed of architectural remainders, stones, steel, cement and discarded wood, Brown & Browning construct materially plural cairns blazing a path towards an existential conceit. There will be a public opening on October 24th, and a lecture titled "On Authenticity" by Harry Kardon on November 2nd.

 

Working in the lexicon of the altered found object, the artists investigate the 

existential in a qualified materiality. Over the course of April, the artists produced twenty sculptures as a totemic representation of erection. Using the elemental notion of the trinity to establish material correspondence and freestanding forms, Brown & Browning seek to express an essential understanding of the erection-the constructed with its impending ruination, the requisite to sexual intercourse and its compulsory petit mort. Their form, weight, and shape refigure a deposed language of formerly practical construction (post/beam, facade, paving, etc). Their present setting evokes transience and repeated transubstantiation- the continual process of construction and destruction necessitated by the exhibit and the practice of formal art. Spinning on the axis of the mortal coil, Brown & Browning express the kinetic in all its essential decadence and confounding purpose.