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Brian Wasson
www.bwasson.com
EDUCATION
MFA 2004 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
MA 2002 Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas
BFA 1999 Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas
AWARDS RECEIVED
Eagle Scout, B.S.A., 1992
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 This Time I Wanted You To Know, PingPong Gallery,
San Francisco, California
2003 LIFE LIKE/LIKE LIFE, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
2002 Schadenfroh: Masters Thesis Exhibition, Fine Arts Center Gallery,
State
University, Arkansas
1999 WASSON; Midtown Art Center,
St. Louis, Missouri
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Pattern vs Decoration, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Haunted, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon
2006 GENTLEMEN, Root Division, San Francisco, California
2005 In League With the Forces of Evil:
Video Art from San Francisco, Warsaw, Poland
2005 FOG FOOD, de Young Art Center, San Francisco, California
2005 Death By Tealight II, Artist Television Access, San Francisco,
California
2004 Glad to be Unhappy, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, Nevada
2004 Cole Valley Film festival, San Francisco, California
2004 VIDEO:1MIN:1800 FRAMES,
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, New Jersey
2004 San Francisco Art Institute MFA Show,
Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
2004 Tell Me a Story of a World Without Words,
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, New Jersey
2003 The Center of Attention Search Engine,
Spanganga Gallery, San Francisco, California
2002 Visions International, Waco Art Center, Waco, Texas
2002 Homecoming: New Works by Recent ASU Undergraduates,
Bradbury Gallery, Jonesboro, Arkansas
2002 45th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock,
Arkansas
2002 Of Anxious, The Otherwise Gallery, Lansing, Michigan
2001 Exit 23B: Young Artists from Jonesboro,
Marshall Arts, Memphis,Tennessee
2001 Domestic Disturbance, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas
2000 Texas National, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches,
Texas
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 Martini, Tiffany, “Greeting card sentiment meets minimalist
art,”
San Francisco Examiner, Feb 20
2002 “Delta Exhibition Features local Artists,” The Jonesboro
Sun, May 19
2001 Hall, Doug, “Art Farm Heals,” Memphis Flyer, November
30
Sullivan, Amy, “Disturbing Details,” The Salina Journal,
August 24. D
2000 Paradise, Michael, “WASSON at Mid-Air Gallery,”
Intermission Magazine, March
1998 “Oh, Max…,” Memphis Flyer, June 15
Weeden, John, “MAX: 98,” Numbers Magazine, Number 35
Artist
Statement
My idea is to find
pleasure in the irony of life. Pleasure, as it alludes to the work,
is realizing that within everything lies an inert beauty and truth.
This is what we experience. The irony is the ability to remember, catalog
and compare these experiences. Each experience, thought, or idea is
unique from the previous. The experiences are idle conversations, implied
sculptural gestures, contrived marks of color, jokes, or ideas of longing.
It is from these experiences that the foundations for each work are
built. The work employs scale, design, humor and other methods to build
on its foundation. It is through this process and creation that for
a moment, for me, the world make sense.
The work is created in a number of ways, one by using the latest tools,
materials and technologies available. These range from 3-D scanning,
3-D printing, CNC machining, injection molding, and microcomputers.
Another would be to make the work by the simplest means necessary, repurposing
old materials: paint, lawn chair webbing, googly eyes and wood constructions.
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