ANDREW BROWNE MY LABYRINTH The labyrinth, a site of mystery, confusion, even desire, is ultimately a challenge to either traverse or experience inwardly Together, Andrew Browne’s new paintings have a puzzling quality - their labyrinth tangles might function as a metaphor for life’s journey, complete with travails, confusion, disorientation, but also moments of revelation. Rendered in an immaculate photo-derived style, the new pictures reveal his enduring interest in how we read – and misread – images, especially now in the age of AI and deep-fakes. Using oil, alkyd aluminum pigment and acrylic, Browne creates his canvases with the help of brush, tape, and solvents to expose underlying layers, often flinging paint in search of immediacy. ‘Alkyd, a resin-based, oil-soluble paint, here combines with aluminium pigment to create the ‘silvery’ effect common to all these paintings, making them especially responsive to the changing conditions of ambient light,’ says Browne. This is Andrew Browne’s tenth exhibition with Tolarno Galleries. His new paintings attract the eye and the mind by bringing together curious urban observations in tightly made images for deeper looking.