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BRIAN BRESS
b. 1975 Norfolk, VA
EDUCATION
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| 2007 |
Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, Skowhegan, MA
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| 2006 |
MFA, Painting & Drawing, University of California, Los Angeles
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| 1998 |
BFA, Film/Animation/Video, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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| 2007 |
Project Room, Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL), New York, NY, July 10 – August 24
Pardon Me, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 6 – February 10
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| 2006 |
Sometimes You Are Just A Hat, RC Art Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 27 – December 8
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| 2003 |
Brian Bress: New Drawings, Open-End Gallery, Chicago, IL, May 16 – June 1
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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| 2008 |
(forthcoming) Against The Grain, curated by Christopher Russel, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, Opening in June, dates to be determined
(forthcoming) California Video, curated by Glenn Phillips, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Opening in March - dates to be determined.
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| 2007 |
Machine Imaginaire, curated by Marc LeBlanc, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL, June 2 – July 7
Distinctive Messengers, Presented by Campari, Curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala, Los Angeles, CA, May 17 – June 10
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April 14 – May 26
Beyond Image, curated by Elise Barclay, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, March 25 – June 10
Kairos!, curated by Rob Thom, Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March 10 – April 21
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| 2006 |
Landslide: Works by Emerging California Artists, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC, December 9, 2006 – January 13, 2007
Naïve Set Theory, curated by Catherine Taft, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 11 - December 31
i know you, but you don't know me, Fette's Gallery, Culver City, CA, October 20 - November 25
Greater LA MFA Exhibition and Screening, California State University, Long Beach, August 27 – September 7
One Shot 100x100, LA><ART, Culver City, CA, August 24
Chain Letter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA, August 20 - August 31
Supersonic 2006, L.A Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, August 8 – September 10
Ecolux: Art in the Light of Ecology, Lightbox, Culver City, CA, July 22 – August 19
Just My Funny Way of Laughing, curated by Diana Nawi, South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, May 12 – June 10
Soft-Boiled Wonderland, curated by Genevieve Pepin and Morgan Satterfield, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, May 5 – May 28
Boat Show, curated by Brad Eberhard and Raffi Kalenderian, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA, April 15 – May 20
UCLA MFA Exhibition #1, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, March 30 – April 13
Rough Trade, curated by Peter Bartlett, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March 18 – April 22
The Latest Fiction, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 7 – February 25
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| 2005 |
State of Emergence, curated by Doug Harvey, LA Weekly Biennial, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA October 8 - November 12
Untitled Play About Gravity by Krysten Cunningham, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, offsite performance, Los Angeles, CA, October 15
Character Traits, new collaborative works, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June 4 – June 26
Exhibition #9 - Some Romantic Landscape, curated by Monique van Genderen, Champion Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, January – February 19
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| 2003 |
Anti-Spacesuit: The Dirty Future, G1 Gallery, Chicago, IL, August 23 – October 11
The Hideout and the Gene Siskel Film Center present Prime Shorts -- The Best of 2003, Chicago, IL
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| 2001 |
Fellows' Invitational, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
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| 1999 |
Young Guns NYC Biennial, The Art Directors Club of New York
New York, NY, December 3 – December 28
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SELECTED SCREENINGS
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| 2007 |
The Imminent Failure Show, UND#2 Art Fair, Over and Over, Hard Job, Karlsruhe, Germany March 21 – March 25
Video Day SXSW, Portrait Room, Over and Over, World Report, Hard Job, Brainquest, Okay, Mountain Gallery, Austin, TX, March 16 - March 17
The Imminent Failure Show, Over and Over, Hard Job, The Ice Factory, Chicago, IL, March 14
DigitalForum, Armory Center for the Arts, Portrait Room, Pasadena CA, March 6 – April 21
Neurotic Naturalism, Rock Cowboy, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY, March 2
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| 1998 |
Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation, Karate Dick Boys La Jolla, CA, January – December
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CURATED EXHIBITIONS
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| 2004 |
Magic Show, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 10 – January 13, 2005
Dark Side of The Sun Wight Gallery, UCLA, October 7 – November 4
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RESIDENCIES
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| 2002 |
Vermont Studio Center, August 1- August 31
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / BIBLIOGRAPHY
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| 2007 |
Ivison, Tim, "Brian Bress", Uber / Ten by Ten, May
Ollman, Leah, "Ambiguity is essence of 'Beyond Image'", Los Angeles Times, E8, 4/14/07
Holte, Michael Ned. Reviews: Los Angeles, Brian Bress, Artforum, March, pp.325-326
Roth, Charlene. 'Naïve Set Theory: Brian Bress, Julie Lequin, Jennifer Sullivan and Ami Tallman' at Cirrus Gallery, Artweek January-February
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| 2006 |
Dawson, Jessica. "A California 'Landslide' Cascades Into Addison/Ripley" Washington Post, December 23
Kennon, Brian. " Television could be much better: Brian Bress" NY Arts Magazine, November – December
Russel, Christopher. "Kennon's Cannons, Labor of Love Begets Publishing House", Artillery, Novemeber, pp.22
Register, Craig. "Sometimes You Are Just A Hat", RC News, Fall, pp.13
Myers, Holly: "The master and his followers," Los Angeles Times, March 31, E 25.
Taft, Catherine. "Rough Trade" Critics' Picks, Artforum.com, May
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| 2005 |
Harvey, Doug: "State of Emergence, Undiscovered cracks in the art-world infrastructure: a catalog," LA Weekly, October 28, pp.46-47.
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| 2004 |
Frank, Peter. "Magic Show: curated by Brian Bress", Artcircles.org, AC #3, Winter 2004-2005
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| 2003 |
Camper, Fred. "Anti-Spacesuit: The Dirty Future", Chicago Reader, pp.33, September 5
Cover Image, "Two Scenes From a Party", Chicago Review, Volume 49, Number 1, Spring
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| 1999 |
Susman, Gary. "Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation", Village Voice, January 27
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