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Brian D. Black-New Genre Artist
I have been a practicing artist living in Southern California since 2000. My performance, installation and sculptural work focuses on physicality, absurdity and object interaction. Around 2004, I met my long-time collaborator artist Ryan Bulis. Since that time, much of my performance work has been associated with the collaborative we call Brian & Ryan. But I have also kept an individual art practice separate from the collaborative work.
In 2017, I began work on a series of solo performance/installations titled: SLICE and The Highest High-Five. My aim is to design work that allows one-on-one interactions with a viewer. In the SLICE series, I invite members of the audience to join me in sawing a log with a double handled cross-cut saw. The slices are then stamped, labeled and set back into their natural environment for potential rediscovery and eventual decay. In the Highest High-Five, I stand on a platform and invite people to attempt a ten foot high-five which is the height of a regulation basketball rim. I first installed the High-Five work at Ship in the Woods 2018. It has been published in Emergency Index 8, and I will revisit this work in March 2020 at Other Places Art Fair.
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Education
2000
MA in Sculpture at Northern Illinois University
1995
BSED in Art Education at Northern Illinois University
BFA in Sculpture at Northern Illinois University
Awards
2020
2020
2019
Art Produce Artist in Residency
Other Places art Fair : Selected Artist
Emergency Index 8: Features Artitst
Exhibitions
Solo
2020
Art Produce
Artist in Residence
San Diego CA
2019
Brian & Ryan Save Kitschmas
Visual Space Gallery
San Diego CA
Group
2019
Sound collection Helmets
Global Frequencies
Lincoln NE
2019
Grey Matter
Ship in the Woods
Escondido CA
2019
Sound Pedro
Angels Gate Gallery
San Pedro CA
2019
To Do A Mending Project
Eraser Workshop
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego CA
2019
Edge to Edge
Venice Institute of Contemporary Art
Fahle Gallerii, Tallin Estonia