New Collection By Kurtis Brand
The Collective Field, 100 paintings and 1 language, plus the 12 marks.
Cease Fire Machine, 2011
So this is where it started. Cease Fire Machine. Script runs across the top, edge to edge, and underneath is a field. Figures, a wheel, a ladder, 2 green bands running up through the middle.
I didn’t know it then, but the whole language was already in there. It took me years to learn to read it.
Why This Collection
For a lot of years I’ve been building a language inside my paintings. Ladders. Rain. Hands reaching up out of the ground. Ships in the upper air. 1 word left whole in a field of script. These marks keep coming back, painting after painting, because they carry something.
This collection is about 1 recognition. We’re a collective. The self we defend so hard is a small part of a much bigger field, and the field is where life happens.
Every painting holds a condition of our moment. And every painting holds the practice that meets it. Stillness. Acceptance. Clear seeing. Moving like water.
Kurtis Brand
What's Coming
Ready or Not
Battle for Water
Shut it Down
What We Do Without Knowing
Cessation of Mind
Clear as Mud
The Way Forward
Garden of Experience
Beyond Greed, Anger & Delusion
In the Flow State
Good Cop Bad Cop
Seeds of Change
Metamorphosis
Actualization
Fully Realized
Living with the Work
A painting lives in your home kind of like a person does. At first you notice the obvious stuff, the colors and the size. Then over the months it starts showing you other things. The light changes and something you never saw comes forward. Years go by and it’s still telling you something new.
Every work comes with its story, a certificate of authenticity, and a permanent provenance listing.
Made for You: Decode Report
In partnership with Rache Brand, she reads you and I create the work based on that.
She reads your operating codes, and the codes from the field you’re ready to bring in. I put those codes on canvas as indicators. You live with the painting, and it keeps working on you.
The Decode Match. We match you to the work in the collection carrying the codes you’re ready to integrate. Held privately, for you.
A commission from your codes. An original painting, made once.
For Galleries
The Collective Field is 1 body of 100 works, every one with a story ready to hang beside it. The gallery edition, with the full code key and series catalog, is shared with gallery partners.
Kurt is available for openings, painting talks, and studio visits.