Marty Brooks is an "outsider" painter who wouldn't' have it any other way, a painter whose preferred canvases are jettisoned cabinet panels, propellers, and packing crates. His work suggests contrary terms... control and spontaniety, dark and lyric, macro and micro... to name a few. He's a prankster who's titles are an essential part of the prank. Some of his works are obvious and satirical, others are bewildering, like a joke told to you in a foreign language. But most will draw the viewer past the gag du jour into his micro world, a collection of secret places where he seems most at home. -Ron Finley
September 13, 2001
Mae and Bradley x
Get The Oil
Final Destination
Packing Crate Divided
On the Verge Of
Oh There You Are
Maintenance Free
The Same Lie Each Night
Adirondacks, Champlain, Void
The Awful Day
Being at Dead Center
Postcard
The Sceptre Crushes
Whaddaya Mean There's No Coffee

After a Green Sky
Bird Crown With Duck, I Think
Paragon of Discipline
No Apologies
Centerpiece