"My paintings and sculptures depict cartoonish objects and figurative elements in flattened and sometimes stage-like environments. I think of the shallow space appearing inside the edges of my paintings as a place to be occupied - a Miroesque space to fall into."
Born in Houston, Texas, in 1981, Browning now lives in Doha, Qatar. In his creative work, he explores imagery and compositional strategies inspired by interactive and fictional worlds within popular media in western art history. His production methods mix traditional materials and forms with techniques employing emerging media. His work includes paintings, sculptures, craft objects, and digital media artworks that depict compressed, dreamlike spaces, abstracted characters, and inventive objects.
"My paintings and sculptures depict cartoonish objects and figurative elements in flattened and sometimes stage-like environments. I think of the shallow space appearing inside the edges of my paintings as a place to be occupied - a Miroesque space to fall into. Characters sometimes reach into the frame or wait just beyond its edge. I use a broad variety of media, including oils, gouache, 3D printed plastics, ceramics, fiber, found objects, and others, to produce artworks that I imagine moving in and out of two and three-dimensional space. I explore collage-like layered realities, virtuality and role play, and the charismatic power of objects through this spectrum of media exploration, imagining each work as a narrative component within an entangled whole."