PHYLLIS BRAMSON

Posted on 2016-10-10

In “My World…And Everywhere It Takes Me”, Bramson paints passionately with lighthearted arbitrariness and amusing anecdotes about love and affection in an often cold and hostile world. Here narrative vignettes are used as a repository for feelings, which often collide and intermingle between notions of the personal, the decorative, and at the same time, proposes a story but doesn’t tell an ending.

In her childhood home, Bramson was surrounded by collections and mishmashes of high and low. Kitsch was juxtaposed with assorted objects such as Asian female figurines, paintings, and Oriental wallpaper. The artist’s visual roots have been a continuous presence in her work, while also employing narration and inspiration from Chinese Pleasure Gardens, as well as: Indian miniatures, Fragonard, Boucher, and Henry Darger. Bramson engages in abstraction and collage combined with figuration, co-mingleing folly with value-infused feelings about the human condition. Balancing delicately between the humorous and somewhat disturbing, her work offers a glimpse into the depictions of playful eccentric spaces and the “bawdy banal”.

Opposite – Leaving Adam

Exhibition runs through to November 11th, 2016

Littlejohn Contemporary Art, Inc.
547 West 27th Street
Suite 207
New York
NY 10065

www.littlejohncontemporary.com