About

For more than three decades, Praxis has explored the space where art and everyday life intersect. Working collaboratively, Brainard and Delia Carey have produced performances, installations, videos, books, interviews, and social exchanges that question how value, participation, and authorship are constructed. Rather than treating art as an object separate from lived experience, Praxis has consistently approached artistic practice as a series of encounters.

Field Work extends that investigation through painting.

The project begins with hundreds of small, original paintings alongside larger works that enter the world not through the conventional rhythms of the gallery system, but through direct public exchange. Presented in places where audiences already gather, each painting becomes both an autonomous work and the starting point for an unpredictable conversation. Every encounter—whether it results in a sale, a question, a refusal, or a lasting relationship—forms part of the work itself.

The title refers to a practice of observation and participation. Like researchers working outside the laboratory, Praxis enters the social field to examine how meaning and value are created in real time. What gives a painting significance? How does context shape perception? What happens when artists assume responsibility not only for making work, but also for introducing it into public life?

Field Work is neither a rejection of painting nor a critique of the market. It is an experiment in circulation. The paintings, the exchanges they generate, and the archive they produce together constitute an evolving body of work.

For Praxis, the studio does not end when the painting is finished. It expands into the conversations, relationships, and unexpected moments that follow, where the work continues to unfold.