White Noise
Adam David Brown
February 14 - March 14, 2009
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Guided by the principal of “less is more” , Brown set out to make several new works that were generated out of his interest in silence, ephemerality and emptiness. Intentionally spare, this work attempts to find a balance between emptiness and form, mark making and erasure. Using Pink Pearl erasers as a marking tool is an ironic gesture that playfully inverts the role of the eraser, allowing it to lend form to ideas that are ephemeral and invisible.

White Noise refers to a purely theoretical sound concept that imagines an infinite-bandwidth, a flat and dense noise signal that has equal power at any frequency. Because the total power of such a signal would be infinite, it is therefore impossible to generate.

Adam David Brown is an artist living in Toronto. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, he completed his Masters of Fine Art at the University of Guelph. He has exhibited work in Canada, Europe, Central America and the United States.

White Noise Reviews
artforum.com/critics’ picks by Dan Adler
canadianart.ca — Adam David Brown: White Noise and other Bounties