Invitation to Stare

Couple, 2004

By making pictures that are erotically charged but resistant to the hurried viewer's quick scan, Brown hoped "to make people stop and look as long as possible. People have lost the habit of standing still in front of a work of art. I didn't want them to feel they'd gotten it too quickly. I always wanted it to be more than one thing, to be multilayered. It could be funny and very serious at the same time."

It could be funny and serious at the same time.