Brian Belott

Tanya Leighton is delighted to present the gallery’s first exhibition with New York based artist, Brian Belott.

Belott’s polymathic approach allows his interests and ideas to run to their most absurd conclusions and back again. Poking and prodding at artistic convention, he leaves nothing off the table with regard to inspiration, materials and execution. He looks to children’s art with the same reverence as he does Dadaism.

Circa Skippy focuses on Belott’s acclaimed Puuuuuuuuuffs series — paintings whose surfaces are stuffed full of thick cotton batting, paint-soaked sponges and amorphous blobs of colour. The wonky geometry of Belott’s Puuuuuuuuuffs are punctuated by fabric and knobs, handles and hooks gleaned from dollar stores. Fans and kitschy electronics that are set into the works surfaces remain switched on throughout the duration of the show, humming and flickering with performative energy that mirrors the artist's own personality.