Art Browns

Description

In Art Browns, Burry captures a deeply personal corner of Wesleyville, Newfoundland—its local Ultramar station, once owned by his uncle, rendered in a bold folk-art palette. The bright red and white church looms large in the background, symbolizing tradition and permanence, while the gas station and its adjacent red convenience store stand in stark modern contrast. The artist’s father’s blue Mustang convertible, stationed casually at the pump, anchors the narrative in memory.

Painted in a naïve, graphic style reminiscent of Jack Bishop, but softened by Burry’s architectural precision, the composition explores not only spatial contrast but emotional layering: boyhood summers, adolescent mischief, and inherited structures—both physical and familial. Art Browns reads as a flattened but highly deliberate map of identity, grounded in Atlantic vernacular architecture and regional nostalgia.

Condition: Excellent, on cradled wood panel, purchased from the artist.

Vertical
30
Horizontal
22

Depth
2