Brett Amory

When I went to the San Francisco Fine Art Fair, local artist Brett Amory was painting a large figurative painting as one of the event's performance pieces. The paintings are monumental and draw the viewer in with the familiarity of the subject matter: ordinary people. 





His paintings have a vacancy to them. The way the artist uses white rather than blacks to emphasis part of the subject. The use of "white-washing" creates a halo effect that starts to relocate the subject into a white void. I think the part I like best is the tension between worldly struggle and a beginning of escapism. At least, that is what I have started to see.

The subjects also have an "everyman" tone too. It is like you could see that person at the grocery store or in your neighborhood. That gets me to reflect on the historical/ political slogans of "everyman/forgotten man" (1930's) such as the film Gold Diggers of 1933.

Interview of Bretty Amory




A short clip from Gold Diggers of 1933
Background: The US promised pay and retirement the soldiers of WWI. When the Great Depression hit, those men requested those funds but there were no funds to give to them. It is something worth researching. Hopefully it is not something relevant to today's soldiers.



Jessica