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“Brad Brown: Getting Used to Using Each Other,” an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by New York artist Brad Brown, will open in the Jundt Galleries of Gonzaga University’s Jundt Art Museum on Oct. 20.

Brown had his first one-person exhibition in 1994 at the Southern Exposure alternative art space in San Francisco. Art critic Kenneth Baker said it was “the most exciting contemporary drawing show to be seen in the Bay Area since the late Richard Diebenkorn’s 1989 drawing retrospective.”

This exhibition will feature new paintings, drawings and prints as well as elements of his “Look Stains (Fragments and Notations).” Brown begins his work by printing and drawing until he has amassed a quantity of images. From these he tears and arranges them. The resulting works are made up of several different images that have been “torn and married, separated and reconstructed.”

Brown’s process is one of recombining and rearranging in seemingly endless combinations. For over a decade, Brown rented rather than sold his works to collectors as a precaution against losing any page, however peripheral, to which he might wish to add or use in a later reconfiguration.

These reconfigurations and new works will be on view through Dec. 13.

A free public preview reception will be held at the Jundt Art Museum from 6-7:15 p.m., Thursday, Oct.19, followed by a free public lecture by Brown at 7:30 p.m., in the Jundt Auditorium.

Admission to the Jundt Art Museum is free and open to the public. The Museum is open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Saturday from noon - 4 p.m.; closed Sundays and school holidays (holidays closures: Oct 14-16, Nov. 22-26).

For more information, please contact Karen Kaiser, assistant curator for education, at (509) 323-6613 or via e-mail at kaiser@gonzaga.edu.