Mitchel Brannan

Hott Flushe

July 11th – August 2nd, 2025

These works are new plays of hott lashings and micro-aggressions, cable-tied by polite, discrete forms. Heat, friction, conflict and eroticism – each work embodies the struggle to both bind and embrace morass in the hott dank of the swamp of abstraction. A torsion of polarities guides the making of these paintings; compulsion and resistance, desire and restraint, empiricism and intuition, form and formlessness. Voices on voices. They draw disparate references into uncomfortable proximity – ornament, cartography, engineering schematics, pornography and archaeology marinate in a flushe of gesture and happenstance and incident. 

Here, simultaneity, thick-swarmed and babel-voiced, is the only inviolate truth.

Image: In The Face of So Much Suffering/In The Face of So Much Joy, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas,