Tim Brawner, Material CDMX 2026, Installation View

For the 12th edition of Material Art Fair in Mexico City, Management is pleased to present a new painting by Tim Brawner, which is not available for sale.

Tim Brawner is an unrivaled painter both in his technical virtuosity and in his mastery of the grotesque genre. Producing a compelling affect of unease, Brawner utilizes the idiom of illustration to render images of alienation through the purposeful bricolage of disparate representational elements. In each work, a persistently fine, painterly execution meets the artist’s formal drafting process of drawing and montage to achieve what Brawner terms a pathos of ‘weirdness’: a form of defamiliarization which is also a seduction, an entreat, into a strange representational space nonetheless evoking trepidation and dread. These visual chimeras undermine the spectators’ traditional binary frames of reference, eliding at once those of conservative Western Christian morality and those of liberal secular paradigms of Enlightened empathy.