Make Your Own Friends

A ten-year survey of the artist’s work, APT artist Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends includes a selection of videos and, for the first time, presents them alongside Bress’s sculpture and works on paper. The exhibition highlights the artist’s unique process that often migrates from two dimensions to three and back again. Bress’s imaginative characters are born as doodles or collages, take shape as sculptural costumes, and come to life on video, often performed in front of elaborately composed backdrops.

Bress’s “friends” imaginatively breach disciplinary boundaries amongst painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and video. Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends, which will remain on view at the MCA through July 3, is accompanied by a catalogue. The exhibition is jointly organized by Nora Burnett Abrams, Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver,

On April 28th, Bress will speak about his work in Denver.