My paintings engage with ideas of authorship and meaning in media. The work is graphic and vibrant, characterized by tensions between found images. In their proximity to each other, disparate fragments suggest unexpected resonance.
Though curiosity about photographic depiction is central to my work, I choose to work with paint for its malleability. The imagery rendered in my paintings retains markers of the photographic: creases, tears, and the colour distortions of print process. But the symbolic charge of this imagery aims at the subconscious, where meaning is intuited rather than deciphered. Attention dictates the image–what is not noticed cannot be rendered.
My paintings rely on the blurred lines between the perception and construction of reality. I use unconventional cropping and composition to slow and alter the interpretation of representational imagery. When recognition is strained, even briefly, processes of perception are harder to ignore. My work encourages attention to the internal movement between confusion and recognition, formlessness and categorization.
Antonia Brown (b. 2001) is based between Hamilton, ON, and Montréal, QC. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University. Her work is part of The Art Volte Collection and has been featured in several publications, notably Yolk Literary Journal (Montréal). Her work is part of private collections in Canada and the United States. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Art Gallery of Burlington in Ontario.
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©Antonia Brown 2026