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Artworks
Ricardo Brey
Three Branches of Red Cedar, 2021Mixed media on paper27 3/4 x 39 1/4 in (70.5 x 99.7 cm)
31 1/2 x 43 x 2 in framed (80 x 109.2 x 5.1 cm framed)RBR267Further images
Three Branches of Red Cedar (2021) is in some ways a departure from the artist’s previous works on paper, which largely utilized color palettes consisting of browns, reds, or grays....Three Branches of Red Cedar (2021) is in some ways a departure from the artist’s previous works on paper, which largely utilized color palettes consisting of browns, reds, or grays. Three Branches of Red Cedar presents an expanse of dark shadowy blues, with organic rhizome-like forms hanging in otherwise empty space, reaching out into the empty space around them. Unable to leave his home and studio in Ghent, Belgium, during the global Covid-19 pandemic, Brey turned to the color blue, which he associated with the sky and the sea, symbols of an unattainable expansiveness and freedom. In his works from this period like Three Branches of Red Cedar, Brey adopts an almost exclusively blue palette, a significant departure from the earth-colored ochres and rusty reds of previous works on paper.3of 3
