The Kuerner Farm

Now on view at the Brandywine, Abundance/Excess: A Contemporary Eye on Still Life features works by 10 contemporary artists and collectives who draw on the legacy of still life painting in their practice. The featured artists include Kate Abercrombie, Sungho Bae, Katie Butler, Ilana Harris-Babou, artist collaborators Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, King Cobra, Tamara Kostianovsky, sTo Len, Cara Romero, and Misha Wyllie. These artists use objects to consider where wealth comes from, who holds it, and how we find and create it in our own lives, and their work often features the same subject matter and conceptual tropes as historic still lifes. In borrowing and reappropriating these motifs, they cast a charged new gaze on our material lives in the present.