Brecht Van­der­brouke often infuses his paint­ings with a slice of life. A slice of life, how­ever, that has gone awry, some­times trag­i­cally so. It’s not always for the worse, but often what Brecht’s sub­jects are endur­ing is dis­com­fort– whether it be phys­i­cal or emo­tion. Some of Brecht’s paint­ings deal with gen­eral awk­ward­ness, like not say­ing ...