Alex Brown, an inventive young New York painter, combines photorealism and Vasarely-style abstraction. Looking at one of his optically mesmerizing, subtly hued canvases is something like looking at a photograph through a patterned shower curtain: the image is atomized almost beyond recognition

My art is representational as far the ideas I use it to express go, but its also quite literal by which the physical structure is itself the expression.

My art is the shape of an idea, as well as mere

faint lit eyes slowly swallowing vibes from the waist line,
only dreams came deliver these things to my bedside,
any shrugs says shes pullin the plugs to the outside