Marcy Brafman

12/10/81

Brooklyn N. Y. USA


Why do we Paint?

In a world with so many options for imaging and imagining the world the question must be asked why paint?

For some it seems like the only way the true path the old religion. To take something thats been done for such a long time and make it relevant to this new and dangerous age.

why paintwhy breathe

The world is full of jagged contrasts. Light and color, image and content, word and picture, deities and demons, beauty and terror, good and evil, grace and hysteria, joy and despair. Duality reigns supreme.

To take the viscous material of paint and spin it out to a picture remains my constant fascination and obsession. And instead of life drawing classes we have cartoons and television. Possibly the last great figure painting took place during the Golden Age of magazine commercial illustration. Finding source inspiration in the great digital landscape. the net of ether, the great big google-y blog.

My materiel of choice is One Shot oil paint. Like it says you have to get it basically right the first time. Its the paint of the old time sign painters. Thick and impossibly glossy gorgeous in its toxicity. The line draws it...

Marcy Brafman
marcy@marcybrafman.com
www.marcybrafman.com

2008
532 Gallery Article Projects True to Form

2007
Heskin Contemporary Meet Qute co-curated w/Elizabeth Heskin

Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, Conn. Girls Gone Wild

Kinz, Tillou + Feigen Gallery NYC - By Invitation Only inaugural exhibit

Vellum Supreme Trading selected artists featured in Vellum Magazine #5.
2006
Artists Space - Night of 1000 Drawings
Art for Progresspainted installation, Bridgehampton N.Y.
Nurture Art Spring Benefit
Drawing the Line Against Domestic Violence benefit auction
Native Spirit @ Supreme Trading
Homebase
War: What Is It Good For? BK Smith Gallery; Lake Erie College; Cleveland, Ohio
2005
Artists Space: Night of 1000 Drawings
Realform Project Space: Face Value; drawing installation
Jack the Pelican Presents: Culture Vulture
2004
Matzo files; Flat Files @ Streits Project Space
Cuchifritos Gallery; Market Value
Asterisk Project Space; Mayday Art; Text Noise Installation
Realform Project Space; Installation w/painting & mirror
Transplant Gallery Group show
2003
Affordable Art Fair/ Elizabeth...