Lewis Brander included in ‘A Room Hung With Thoughts: British Painting Now’ at Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas

Lewis Brander
Tourkovounia, 2024
Oil on wood
37 x 41.5 cm
14 5/8 x 16 3/8 ins
Collection of Michael Corman and Kevin Fink. © Lewis Brander. Courtesy of Vardaxoglou Gallery, London. Photo: Jack Elliot Edwards.

A Room Hung With Thoughts: British Painting Now
15 February – 11 May 2025
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas

Lewis Brander is included in ‘A Room Hung With Thoughts: British Painting Now’, a group exhibition at Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas. Curated by Tom Morton, the exhibition focuses on the vitality and diversity of contemporary British painting, while foregrounding its practitioners’ ability to speak to both the history of their medium and to a broad spectrum of contemporary concerns.

The title of the exhibition echoes an observation attributed to the seminal eighteenth-century British painter and theorist Sir Joshua Reynolds, that “a room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts”. Unpack these words, and what emerges is an insistence that making (and viewing) images is an activity that engages not only the eye, but also the mind. They remind us that a painting is set of ideas, given visual form.

Placed into dialogue in the Green Family Art Foundation’s exhibition spaces, the forty works (or “thoughts”) in the show come together to provide visitors with an insight into British painting today—many of its key established and emerging voices, its multiple positions and vectors, and its vibrant, often unruly, and perennially questing energy. Here, figuration meets abstraction, the everyday meets the fantastical, and themes, concepts, and atmospheres play off and enrich each other in a unique cross section of contemporary painting practice.