“Everything is transitory, and distraction is the basis of our collective cultural perception of the world: there seems to be an implicit prohibition upon silences, pauses, authentic recognitions and prolonged absorption. In the depthless depth of a Brauntuch work, everything happens just behind the surface of appearance, and those prohibitions are broken.” – Joshua Decter, 1996
A member of the so-called Pictures Generation, Troy Brauntuch—whose career spans some three decades—has often been discussed as taking a particularly postmodern tack when it comes to representation. Yet his works, as much as they can be seen as performing a deconstructive function, are equally compelling for their subtle insistence on subjective experience…