Rainbow Body is the fourth Solo Exhibition by British performance
artist Millie Brown. An evolution of Brown’s original and most
recognized performance work, Rainbow Body presents a survey of
the artist’s new home in Los Angeles. Developed from Brown’s
non-traditional, performance-based methods of painting from the
inside-out, Rainbow Body features a post-contemporary study on
abstract expressionism within a California palette.
Using almond milk, food coloring, stomach and hands, Brown creates
aesthetically whimsical paintings with a deep underlining of raw human
emotion. Each piece tells the story of the Los Angeles sky, its past and
its present, its light and its dark.
Viewing the body as a vessel for spiritual practice, Brown pushes
physical and mental boundaries to reach a state of enlightenment from
which creative expression and healing derives. Rooted in Tibetan
Buddhist theology, Rainbow Body is the phenomenon of viewing
spiritual transcendence from a third person perspective. Rainbow
Body is based on three wisdoms, representing the three categories of
paintings: ground, presence, and energy.