Julian Brown and Randall Reid
16 May – 6 June 2026
Nüart Gallery
Opening Reception & Artist Walkthrough
Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 3:00–5:00 PM
Nüart Gallery is pleased to present Material Memory, a two-person exhibition featuring
new works by Julian Brown and Randall Reid. The exhibition explores how memory,
history, and transformation become embedded within surface, texture, and material.
Brown’s large-scale paintings and works on paper draw from Polish folk art, personal
memory, and inherited visual traditions. Influenced by tactile forms, handmade
traditions, and fragments of childhood memory, Brown uses abstraction to create
atmospheric compositions rich in color, movement, and texture. Monoprinted forms,
woven patterns, and recurring motifs emerge through layered surfaces, balancing
playfulness and nostalgia while connecting personal experience with cultural history.
Embedded within the work is a sense of wonder and rediscovery — an exploration of
heritage through environment, color, form, and harmony, elements that feel deeply
rooted within the psyche.
Known for transforming reclaimed and repurposed materials into layered abstract
compositions, Reid’s practice examines surface, structure, and the passage of time.
Working with salvaged wood, steel, industrial fragments, and weathered materials
gathered from different eras, he constructs compositions that carry visible traces of use,
erosion, and transformation. His new works draw from divided landscapes, shifting
terrain, architectural remnants, and processes of decay and reconstruction, balancing
geometric order with organic deterioration. Through careful recontextualization,
materials once tied to functional histories are granted a renewed spatial and emotional
presence, existing simultaneously as formal abstractions and repositories of memory.
Reid’s surfaces possess a tactile density that evokes both excavation and repair, where
layers of texture and patina suggest the accumulation of time itself, reflecting on
impermanence, renewal, and the imprint of human experience within material.
Together, Brown and Reid approach material not only as a physical medium, but as a
carrier of accumulated experience.
Nüart Gallery
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave #B4
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Tel: +1 424-900-3888