Christopher Le Brun and Edmond Brooks-Beckman
albertz benda is pleased to announce Christopher Le Brun and Edmond Brooks-Beckman, an exhibition pairing the tactile and expressive mark making of two London-based painters on view in Los Angeles from July 11th – August 10th, 2024. Set in the Hollywood Hills behind Chateau Marmont, albertz benda Los Angeles offers a unique domestic setting for intimate viewing of the intricately textured surfaces of these two artists’ works on canvas
Christopher Le Brun (b. 1951, Portsmouth) is one of the leading British painters of his generation, celebrated internationally since the 1980s, making both figurative and abstract work in painting, sculpture and print. He was an instrumental public figure in his role as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2011 to 2019. He was awarded a Knighthood for services to the Arts in the 2021 New Year Honours.
Le Brun employs a mastery of touch and color alongside a profound understanding of art history and a wide range of visual, musical and literary sources. He has remained consistent in adhering to what he feels to be the essential poetry and pleasure of painting for its own sake, led by intuition and visual imagination and resistant to external justification
Edmond Brooks-Beckman (b.1987, London) lives and works in London. He received his MA in painting from the Royal College of Art in 2023, and a BA from the Brighton school of Art in 2009. Brooks-Beckman’s utilizes an archeological approach to abstraction that involves methodically building up the surfaces, only to scrape through and re-work them, and a re-application of ‘waste’ material. Constructed from an arsenal of recurring gestures and techniques, Brooks-Beckman often makes symbolic references to his Jewish heritage and the stories he was told as a child. These paintings do not hinge on narrative, but rather utilize storytelling to ground the artist’s otherwise intuitive, process driven exploration of material.