Eric Brown's 'Vice Versa' Exhibition at Ille Arts in Amagansett Explores Abstraction Through Color and Form

Eric Brown presented 'Vice Versa' at Ille Arts in Amagansett, New York, from July 3 to 21, 2015. The exhibition featured intimately scaled paintings with vibrant plaids and stripes, drawing comparisons to textiles and abstract painting traditions. Influences cited include Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Myron Stout, Alice Trumbull Mason, and Bridget Riley, with connections to Bauhaus and Black Mountain textile artists like Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers. Works such as 'Red and Blue Rectangles' (2014), 'Red Envelope' (2015), and 'The Red Oval' (2015) played with geometric shapes and color interactions, using hues like electric cherry red and traffic cone orange. Some paintings extended pigment onto the stretcher edges, linking them visually to the gallery walls. Brown's background includes work at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, supporting artists like John Ashbery and Jane Freilicher, which influenced his artistic sensitivity. The review notes musical analogies, comparing color to timbre and referencing Arnold Schoenberg's 'Pierrot Lunaire'. The gallery was located at 216a Main Street in Amagansett, with contact number 631 905 9894.