About Brian Treadwell

 

painter/artist.  

b .1977.  Georgia, USA.  American/Chilean.

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Located in Georgia, I find my self situated between the canon of "Art History" and the vernacular artistry of the American South.

 

Mostly, I use basic, democratized materials and methods...

 

Borrowing  from the idea of art-making as a primary practice, I’m pushing many of my works to relax conceptual specificity in favor of emotional interpretation—while keeping of their time and place.  Paintings like a piece of music, for example. 

 

I like, also, the idea that an artwork be regarded as much an object as an illusion—ultimately, an object of “concentrated-energy.”

 

The themes in my works (resting between intellect and intuition) include Nature and the Market, Existentialism, cool passion, refinement and ineptitude, language, flesh and spirit, the denial of Death, community and identity, the analog/digital divide, Love, and so on…

 

As the story of Art continues in the 21st Century, I just feel that that quintessential artistic spark that existed in ancient art is likely to flicker a bit...maybe, vestiges of humanity...

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Education

autodidact, etc.
(B.S. Mathematics G.S.U. Atlanta, GA)