From the foreword
“Looking into one of Riley’s paintings is like walking home through a heavy dusk. We are guided by a sense beyond sight that ferries us forward. The edges of shapes and the spaces they inhabit begin to meld together. External space becomes internalized. It is known—to the artist and to us—and by being known, it frees us to find new language in a familiar landscape.” - Matt Murphy
“These paintings are like the freeze frames of Monet’s cathedrals, where color and texture are the clocks. The rare flashes of brightness in these paintings are always astonishing and throw every other part of the surface into relief. ”
“These works feel connected to the world through time and perhaps a sense of gravity, yet they don’t bring us to a nameable realm of the everyday.”
About the Artist
Riley Brewster studied at Bowdoin College in Maine, and received his MFA in Painting, from Yale University. He has taught at Hampshire College, the New York Studio School, Dartmouth University, Bowdoin College, the University of Washington. His work can be found in the Davis Museum of Art, the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Vermont Studio Center, and the Yale University Museum of Art. Brewster currently teaches in the MFA program at Western Connecticut State University and is represented by Fred Giampietro Gallery in New Haven.
About the Editor
Matt Murphy is a painter living and working in Boston. He has shown at Mass Art, Laconia Gallery, Sugar Gallery at University of Arkansas, New Bedford Museum of Art, and Atlantic Wharf Gallery, and recently completed a residency at Siena Art Institute in Italy. He has a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and an MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle.
