About Brian Treadwell

 

painter/artist.  

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

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I work and exist between the canon of Art History and the vernacular art of the American South.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

The themes I try to imbue in my works, situating themselves between precision 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…

 

On the story of Art in the 21st Century, I just feel that that quintessential artistic spark that exists 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)