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but here we are dancing, #17
oil on birch panel
2024
10 x 8 inches
What does it mean to be a kind person in a cruel world? My paintings wrestle with this question as figures and spaces are obscured by a disorienting light. The light hues in my paintings serve as a marker of moments in which we are confronted by the enormity of the exploitation and human suffering that fuels our global economy. By depicting domestic vignettes in this manner, I use whiteness to represent how the exploitative system of capitalism penetrates our homes, entangling our intimate spaces and desire for comfort with a web of pain and destruction. While the obliterating light in my paintings obscures the figures, they are not consumed by it. They push back against it. Through suggestions of connection, tender nods, and familiar gestures, these figures hold onto their humanity in the face of larger disempowering forces.
Brooks Cashbaugh
@brookscashbaugh
Brooks Cashbaugh is a painter based in Iowa City, Iowa. Working physically in oil paint, he references digital imagery to explore the overlap of culture, color, and capitalism. Cashbaugh holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a BFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown nationally at Warnes Contemporary in Brooklyn, NY and Night Club Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota as well as internationally at CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea.
but here we are dancing, #17
oil on birch panel
2024
10 x 8 inches
What does it mean to be a kind person in a cruel world? My paintings wrestle with this question as figures and spaces are obscured by a disorienting light. The light hues in my paintings serve as a marker of moments in which we are confronted by the enormity of the exploitation and human suffering that fuels our global economy. By depicting domestic vignettes in this manner, I use whiteness to represent how the exploitative system of capitalism penetrates our homes, entangling our intimate spaces and desire for comfort with a web of pain and destruction. While the obliterating light in my paintings obscures the figures, they are not consumed by it. They push back against it. Through suggestions of connection, tender nods, and familiar gestures, these figures hold onto their humanity in the face of larger disempowering forces.
Brooks Cashbaugh
@brookscashbaugh
Brooks Cashbaugh is a painter based in Iowa City, Iowa. Working physically in oil paint, he references digital imagery to explore the overlap of culture, color, and capitalism. Cashbaugh holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a BFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown nationally at Warnes Contemporary in Brooklyn, NY and Night Club Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota as well as internationally at CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea.