Next Exhibition - “Pothole Poetic”
​September 20 - October 31, 2024

Opening Reception September 20th 6-9PM

Opening Reception for "Pothole Poetic"
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Join us for light refreshments & see what the Bindery Artists are up to.

Grant M Brownlow introduces “Pothole Poetic” a solo exhibition of recently created paintings and lithographs at The Bindery in Lafayette, Indiana.

“Pothole Poetic” presents collage-like compositions
colliding imagery of the midwestern US region’s prolific manufacturing past with its rusted daily present in an exploration of self and influence. These artworks are Brownlow’s poetic internal explorations of the post-
industrial midwestern psyche, reflections on the region’s overshadowing industrialized history with its continuing narrative in the present. The work, informed by his daily life and upbringing around industrial spaces including plastics factories, auto body shops and half-abandoned warehouses, confronts ideas including class, identity, and inherited self-destructive tendencies within the region and his experience. These
resulting artworks shift between nostalgic layers of appropriated text from long-dead automobiles, tenderly rendered objects of daily life, and fast abstracted marks blurring the planes. As the images and marks overlap
and combine, value appears in the mixing of era and aura, growth and decay in the region and understanding of resulting self within it.

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Upcoming Exhibitions

November Exhibition
Opening Reception November 8th, 6-9PM