13. BRIAN
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Big Sister, 2011
Acrylic
on canvas
152,4 x 121,92 cm |
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In a Place, 2004
Acrylic
on canvas
121,92 x 152,4 cm |
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Codex (Head), 2009
Acrylic
on canvas
152,4x 152,4cm. |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1969 in Visalia, California
( USA)
Studies:
In
1992 Got the B.A. degree at University of California,
Berkeley, (USA)
In 1994, got the MFA
degree at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago,
Nowadays:
Lives and works in
Ventura, California (USA)
Themes and style:
Calvin
is a figurative painter who has developed a body of highly
stylized flattened paintings, rendering his figures in light-soaked portraits
that retain a lifelike quality. His work’s defining characteristic is the
figures’ temporal pauses; each one seems to be suspended in action. Calvin’s
recent work has moved away from revealing his subjects’ whole faces and instead
highlights individual features such as eyes.
Techniques:
Acrylic and oil on canvas.
Solo
Exhibitions
2015 Mu.ZEE, Ostend,
Belgium
Le Consortium, Dijon,
France
2014 Anton Kern
Gallery, New York, NY
2013 End of Messages,
The Finley, Los Angles, CA
Corvi-Mora, London,
UK
2011 Corbett vs.
Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2010 Corvi-Mora,
London, UK
2009 Head, Anton Kern
Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Corvi-Mora,
London, UK
Things, Marc Foxx,
Los Angeles, CA
2006 Anton Kern
Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Marc Foxx, Los
Angeles, CA
Corvi-Mora, London,
UK
2004 Anton Kern
Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Corvi-Mora,
London, UK
The Conversation,
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Unreal, Gallery
Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
Marc Foxx, Los
Angeles, CA
2001 Corvi-Mora,
London, UK
2000 Days, Marc Foxx,
Los Angeles, CA
1999 It's Easy To
Make Friends, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Good News,
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
1996 God's Plot &
John Wilkes Booth, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Inc., Chicago, IL
1994 New Paintings:
Brian Calvin, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 About Face,
curated by Kristina Kite and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los
Angeles, CA
Anton Kern Gallery
532 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 tel 212.367.9663
www.antonkerngallery.com
The Guston Effect,
Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
intimate paintings,
Half Gallery, New York, NY
Tracing Shadows,
PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
The Shell
(Landscapes, Portraits, & Shapes), Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
SELF: Portraits of
Artists in their Absence, curated by Filippo Fossati, National Academy Museum
& School, New
York, NY
2014 Another Cat
Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
2013 California
Landscape Into Abstraction: Works From The Orange County Museum Of Art, Orange
County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA
2012 We the People,
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project, New York, NY
About Face, ACME, Los
Angeles, CA
2011 Brian Calvin,
Charles Garabedian, Zach Harris, John McAllister, David Kordansky Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
Knock, Knock!,
Anderson Gallery VCU Arts, Richmond, VA
Dystopia, CAPC Museé
d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
2010 This and That,
Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2009 Electric Mud,
Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
2008 Dinner and a
Group Show, GBE@passeby, New York, NY
Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown’s
enterprise, Maccarone, New York, NY
Live Undead,
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
If Everybody had an
Ocean, Musée d´art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
2007 Good Morning,
Midnight, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
If Everybody Had an
Ocean Brian Wilson: an Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, St Ives; Travelling to
CAPC, Bordeaux,
France
After Cezanne, MOCA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Very Abstract and
Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane, London, UK
2004 California
Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Baja to Vancouver:
The West Coast and Contemporary Art, CCA Wattis Institute of
Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco, CA
Red Eye, Rubell
Family Collection, Miami, FL [cat.]
Now and Then Some,
curated by David Pagel, Claremont College, Claremont, CA
2003 Baja to
Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; MCA
San
Diego; Vancouver Art
Gallery; Vancouver, British Columbia; CCAC Watts Institute, Oakland, CA
[cat.]
Painting Pictures,
Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg,
Germany [cat.]
ISHTAR curated by
Bruce Hainley, Midway, St. Paul, MN [cat.]
Giverny, Salon 94,
New York, NY
Prague Biennale 1,
Veletrzní Palác, Prague, Czech Republic
The Great Drawing
Show: 1550-2003 AD, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Fourth Sex:
Adolescent Extremes, curated by Francesco Bonami & Raf Simons, Stazione
Leopolda, Florence,
Italy [cat.]
Youngstars,
Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Anton Kern Gallery
532 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 tel 212.367.9663
www.antonkerngallery.com
Painting Pictures,
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Dear Painter, paint
me, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany [cat.]
2002 Dear Painter,
paint me..., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France [cat.]
Paintings, Marc Foxx,
Los Angeles, CA
Grey Gardens, curated
by Bruce Hainley, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Painting and
Illustration, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Collectors Program:
Sammlung Köhn, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Grey Gardens, curated
by Bruce Hainley, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Galleries Show:
Contemporary Art in London, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
Paintings, Marc Foxx,
Los Angeles, CA
Dear Painter, paint
me, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria [cat.]
2001 The Devil is in
the Details, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
The Americans. New
art. The Barbican, London, UK [cat.]
2000 Marc Foxx, Los
Angeles, CA
Collector’s Choice,
Exit Art, New York, NY
1999 Brian Calvin,
Keiko Sono, Maureen Gallace, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
Meanwhile..., Jan
Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Brian Calvin,
Suzanne Doremus, Edward Henderson & Deborah Orapallo,
Foster Gallery, The
University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire, WI
1995 X-sightings,
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1994 Discontents
& Debutantes: Brian Calvin & Mike Cockrill, Center for the Visual Arts,
Illinois State
University, Normal, IL
Don Baum's Grab Bag,
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Recent Paintings, Gallery
2, School of The Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Created Here: a salon
d'Ecole, Richard Himmel Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Whose Broad
Stripes & Bright Stars: Death, Reverence & the Struggle for Equality
In America, Betty
Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
All-Illinois Graduate
Art Exhibition, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1991 New &
Improved, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Merit Scholarship
Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Public
Collections:
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Orange County Museum
of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Nerman Museum of
Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Representative
Galleries:
Anton Kern Gallery
Corvi Mora Gallery
In
his own words:
“The very act of painting combined with the act
of looking creates a portal through which a lot can transpire,” Calvin has
said. “So I paint each day, trying to remain open enough to let that connection
happen.”
For
more Information:
www.antonkerngallery.com/artist/brian-calvin/
www.musemagazine.it/brian-calvin/
http://www.corvi-mora.com/gallery/Artists/briancalvin/19/