Artist-In-Residence| Co-Gallerist

Bio

After more than 40 years as an artist, Brian has settled into developing his work in five art arenas: Clay, Art On Paper (AOP), Sculpture, Painting, Photography. Because of his depth as an artist and the experiences he’s garnered from his many journeys he has developed a couple of workshops; one that focuses on how and why he still makes clay boxes, and another on his creative processes. Furthermore, out of necessity, he designs and builds mobile studio-art equipment.

Brian started his art career in Kansas, but after many, many relocations, now lives in Washington State. Of the many places he has called home, one of his most memorable ones was the three years he lived in Vienna, Austria working as a photographer immediately after completing his graduate studies at the University of Tulsa.

Though in Vienna he did not create much art beyond photography, he did continue his aesthetic journey visiting major museums and galleries and traveling central Europe (before the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet Union). He was married there and a little over a year later returned to America where he had his first of three major a life reversals and set-backs. In the summer of 1992 his mother passed away, he was divorced, and he finished his Master Management Information Systems degree in the course of 90 days before moving to Dallas to join a small start-up focusing on computers and the digital revolution in off-set printing (a whole other story).

During the next two and a half decades he lived and worked in several different cities—Minneapolis, Wichita, Bellingham, Tacoma and now Sedro-Woolley, to name some, but not all, of the locations to which he has moved. Relocating often and experiencing many cultures first hand has influenced him deeply to say the least.

As with almost every other person he knows, the two disastrous, world-changing events of 2001 and 2008 deeply affected him. Both of these events collapsed much of what he was doing to subsidize his art and critically hampered his art career. Yet, aesthetically and skillfully, he continued to thrive. Though these punctuated reversals have been traumatic, he has been able to find the rightness of his total dedication to creating art, and of necessity, in creating equipment that he and other space-capital hindered artists sorely need.

Though a romantic in many ways, he is also a pragmatist, moving beyond bitterness, he focuses on the positive realities that his work today is the best of his life, and that, as artist-in-residence and co-gallerist at Trinky Busiu in Sedrow-Woolley, he is able to make his best art in this, the most productive phase of his life.

Brian is currently developing the foundation of a major showing of his work that he hopes to complete over the next five years, which will showcase his five art arenas.