Martin Brief: A Brief History of Time

This exhibition of 24 drawings by Martin Brief brings together four projects—A Brief History of Time, Security, Newspapers, and Dictionary—spanning 12 years of the artist’s production. 

Born and raised in Chicago, Martin Brief is an artist whose recent work - long-term, absurd, drawing-based tasks - interrogates aspects of our complex social and political fabric. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including in New York, Paris, Zurich, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website 

Image: Martin Brief, Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature, 2015 (detail) from A Brief History of Time, ink on paper, 32 ¼ x 19 ¼ inches, courtesy of the artist.