{"id":410,"date":"2009-11-21T23:07:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T23:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes12\/2009\/11\/21\/ryan-s-brown-at-the-covey\/"},"modified":"2018-10-07T20:25:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T02:25:33","slug":"ryan-s-brown-at-the-covey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/ryan-s-brown-at-the-covey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan S. Brown at the Covey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Tommaso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12629\" title=\"Tommaso\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Tommaso-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Tommaso-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Tommaso.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The landscapes and portraits of Ryan S. Brown, now on display at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coveycenter.org\/\">Covey Center for Fine Arts<\/a>\u00a0in Provo, are investigations into fundamentals of the natural world and human nature. \u201cObservations from Life,\u201d which ends November 30th, displays Brown\u2019s ability to penetrate to the core of the subject of his work. \u201cIt starts with understanding your subject and interacting with it in a way that brings my experience with other people,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown\u2019s education at the Florence Academy of Art was grounded in the traditional academic system that stresses studies, in preliminary drawings or intense observation, as integral to the art- making process. Along with finished landscapes and portraits, the show at the Covey Center includes numerous preparatory drawings that are the framework for larger, finished works and reveal essential aspects of the process of Brown\u2019s artistic investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of the works of nature are smaller in scale and might seem arbitrary or random but are in fact candid and frank renderings of the land that are as intriguing as a larger-scale work. In these paintings Brown observes the way water flows over a cluster of rocks or light pierces a grove of trees. In his figurative works, like \u201cTommasso,\u201d Brown investigates the human subject in order to express the sitter\u2019s individual traits, manifest in candid emotion or mood. Regardless of what is being painted, Brown\u2019s works are \u201cobservations from life,\u201d and there is a sense of truth to what is being painted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Observations from Life<\/em>\u00a0is at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coveycenter.org\/\">Covey Center for the Arts<\/a>\u00a0through November 30.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The landscapes and portraits of Ryan S. Brown, now on display at the\u00a0Covey Center for Fine Arts\u00a0in Provo, are investigations into fundamentals of the natural world and human nature. \u201cObservations from Life,\u201d which ends November 30th, displays Brown\u2019s ability to penetrate to the core of the subject of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":12629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[1018],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition_reviews","category-visual_arts","tag-ryan-s-brown"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-02 07:59:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39072,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/39072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}