Interior Turquoise

Tim Braden

2019

Oil on paper

Minneapolis Institute of Art

An abstract interior scene is depicted with bold brushstrokes and a vibrant color palette. Furniture and plants are suggested through blocks of color and energetic lines. In his oil on paper, Interior Turquoise, Tim Braden presents a semi-abstract interior scene crowded with casually luxurious furnishings painted in a patchwork of vivid color and contrasting tones. Though there is a suggestion of seated figures in the background, Braden emphasizes the structural relationship of the various pictorial elements within the scene, which appears to depict a lounge in a fashionable resort or private home. Here, Braden instills an intentional ambiguity into the vaguely familiar subject, with the intention of cultivating a fictional nostalgia for another place and time. Braden acknowledges his debt to the exa