Austen Brown: Unquiet Rest
@ David Salkin Creative
1709 W Chicago Ave, #2A, Chicago, Il, 60622
Opening Saturday, June 5th, from 11am - 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 24th
“Contemporary space is an expression of finance, with 60% of global capital in real estate. It is designed to be endlessly flexible, temporary, formless. The invisible hand gestures to the open floor plan, directing it to absorb whatever. You are a user, alone, a discrete subject that is meant to participate in the economy at all costs. You are allowed to enter under specific conditions, not to stop and linger, to lay down and have a thought. But as long as you assent, the building will love you back (for a moment).
These places are thin, flat, interchangeable, allowing for the exertion of incredible power onto space. There’s a reason why protests so frequently turn to the street or highway, where else can they go? Not the Bean, not the Board of Trade.”
-Austen
Austen Brown is an artist living in Chicago, IL holding his MFA from the School at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is faculty in the Sound Department. Using buildings as evidence, his work unpacks the social, cultural, and economic complexities that are present in urban planning and architecture.
His work has been shown internationally at Sistered, Portland Maine; The Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL; The SUB-Mission, Chicago, IL; Super-Sensor, Madrid, Spain; EXPO Chicago, IL; ACRE, Chicago, IL; Switched on Garden with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, Philadelphia, PA; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, among others.
Residencies and awards include funding from the Illinois Arts Council, ACRE, HATCH Projects, the Municipal Arts League Fellowship, Siragusa Foundation Fellowship, and the New Artist Society Scholarship.
www.austenbrown.net
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