Brett Ginsburg. Wind, Water, Wood

About

BRETT GINSBURG (b. 1990), lives and works in New York. He received an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University (2022), and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute (2013).

Brett Ginsburg responds to the vibratory and unseen technical systems that proliferate our surroundings, engaging in the spatial navigation of infrastructural, automotive, and ecological sites. Through painting and sculpture, he delves into ideological questions around the development of technologies and the often concealed codes, standards, and considerations that comprise them. Ginsburg's work contemplates the influence of insects (entomology) and evolutionary biology on technological progress, as well as the systems that shape our built environments. By inter-scaling visual information from first hand encounters and research artifacts, his work serves as an abstract proposition for questioning and perception, rather than a definitive thesis.

Ginsburg's conceptual interests also encompass imaging through machines, microscopes, scanners and casting simulation technologies to consider the internal and engineered complexities of his subjects. He approaches his practice with the intention of unraveling the technical aspects of his research and focusing on the space between elements and their potential energies as a spectrum, rather than binaries. Within his compositions, he often references art history and incorporates various conceptual frameworks. By adapting the indexical processes of mold-making and mono-printing, Ginsburg compresses industrial materials and diverse modes of representation into singular picture planes. This technique creates subtle interferences and adds pictorial tension, reflecting the simultaneity that characterizes our attention-driven society.

Ginsburg’s work has been shown in exhibitions at Kraupa–Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2023); Anonymous Gallery, NY (2023); Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris (2023) Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2022); Below Grand, New York (2022); Green Hall Gallery, New Haven (2022); The Bunker West, Santa Monica Mountains (2020); and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2014).

Wind, Water, Wood marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe.