SPIKE
New works by Rebecca Brown
June 29th - August 31st 2025
La Loma Projects Annex: 1357 Brixton Road, Pasadena, CA 91105 (By appointment only)
REBECCA BROWN Turning Point, 2025, 6 x 6”, Acrylic gouache and pastel on birch panel.
Rebecca Brown’s SPIKE, is a work of interior stagecraft, paintings as waypoints in the artist’s psychic landscape—from a lonely spray of water arching out of a still green sea to the Looney Tunes orange spiral of a clay pigeon, a motif from Brown’s childhood in Kentucky. These paintings blend the graphic immediacy of animation cels with an a quiet surrealist uncanny. Drawing equally from Billy Al Bengston’s crisp, funny formalism and Magritte’s dreamlike tableaux, Brown freezes locations and visions that hover between recognition and abstraction. A graduate of ArtCenter College of Design with a BFA in Illustration, Brown approaches painting with a designer’s eye for distillation and an animator’s love of bold silhouettes (from “The Simpsons” to Sleeping Beauty). Her process begins with swift, concise sketches that preserve the urgency of a moment, followed by meticulous small-brush work. The paintings in Spike invite viewers to reconstruct narratives from these deliberate fragments.
