
Brian Calvin, Sadie Jane, 2023; Limited Edition Print
**Please note, per the artist’s request buyers will be required to sign a 3-year no resale agreement for hand-embellished prints. Once an order is placed, a member of our team will be in touch with this contract and prints will not be shipped until it has been returned. Failure to return a signed agreement will result in a refund sans a 5% restocking fee.** Brian Calvin began developing a figurative, non-narrative, pictorial style during the 1990s, steeping landscapes and portraits in his Californian roots. Close-up treatment of subjects, highly composed structures, and luminous colors laid flat endow these large-scale paintings with a strange temporality. In observing his technique of pictorial economy, one gradually comes to see a type of abstraction in his representation of certain details. They reveal the true finality of his work, reaffirming the primacy of a visual reflection on painting itself and its possibilities. Calvin’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at ven