etah, by Jazz Brown, J. Rinehart Gallery website

etah, by Jazz Brown, J. Rinehart Gallery website

Name/Title

etah

Entry/Object ID

2023.1.48

Description

Acrylic on canvas, abstract painting balancing overlapping circles, with a colorful underpainting and white palette knife marks on top.

Type of Painting

Easel

Artwork Details

Medium

Acrylic on Canvas

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Jazz Brown

Role

Painter

Date made

2021

Dimensions

Height

48 in

Width

72 in

Copyright

Copyright Holder

Jazz Brown

Interpretative Labels

Label

The title, etah, is the word hate spelled backwards, which represents a creative way of challenging and subverting conventional expectations while prompting the viewer to question their own assumptions and biases.

Label

Jazz Brown’s artistic approach presents intense vibration through contrasting hues, shapes, and textures. He is inspired by both the Minimalism art movement and the Bebop jazz offspring from the 1960s. Brown describes his technique as "consciousnesses on canvas." The title is simply the word hate, in reverse. It is an artistic exercise in negation of the mundane, a gesticulation pointing to the unconditional