EXHIBITION

Make Your Own Friends

Orange County Museum of Art, California, Newport Beach, 08/06/2016 - 12/04/2016

850 San Clemente Dr Newport Beach, CA 92660

ABOUT

Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends offers an in-depth look at the last ten years of Bress’s practice. Bringing together his video, sculpture and works on paper for the first time, the exhibition is the most significant presentation of the L.A. artist’s work to date. Bress is known for the fictional characters he creates, inspired by 1980s children’s programming, exotic world cultures and historical art movements. Born as doodles or collages, these imaginative figures take shape as sculptural costumes and come to life on video, performed in front of elaborately composed backdrops.

Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends is jointly organized by Whitney Tassie, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), and Nora Burnett Abrams, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. The exhibition is sponsored in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the UMFA Friends of Contemporary Art (FoCA), and the Director's Vision Society at MCA Denver. The exhibition catalogue is made possible by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles.  

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Brian Bress

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