Acrylic on canvas
27” x 55”

A departure from conventional paint brushes, Brian employed an arsenal of household accouterments to apply paint stemming from cotton balls and ear swabs, to toothbrushes and SOS scrubber pads. This piece depicts a young person engulfed in a plum of dust and gripping her own dust-covered skin. The painting is a struggle between dichotomies. Light and dark, gay and straight, feminine and masculine. The subject is androgynous. We don’t know if she is man or woman, and the white powder obscures the portrayal of race.