Brian Fridge

Brian Fridge (born 1969 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American video artist. He earned a bachelor in fine arts from the University of North Texas, and a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Texas at Dallas.[1] In both 2005 and 2009, Fridge was a resident at CentralTrak, the University of Texas at Dallas artist residency.[2]

Exhibitions include the inaugural 2005 edition of the Turin Triennial [3] at the Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin, Italy and the 2000 Biennial Exhibition [4] of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His work is also exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art.[5]

His work has been described as "very Zen and wry".[6] A typical work is Vault Sequence (1995), recorded in the artist’s own apartment, the video “seems instead to have come directly from the Hubble telescope".[7] Brian Fridge's low-tech, poetic approach has a precedent in Arte Povera and his explorations of symbol and process are reminiscent of alchemy.

References

  1. ↑ "Brian Fridge" (PDF). BrianFridge.net. September 13, 2010. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  2. ↑ http://artandseek.net/2009/08/24/new-faces-at-centraltrak-artists-residency/
  3. ↑ 2005 Turin Trienniel artists
  4. ↑ 2000 Whitney Biennial artists
  5. ↑ http://whitney.org/Collection/AllArtists?artists_page=2&name=F
  6. ↑ Michael Kimmelman (24 March 2000). "ART REVIEW; A New Whitney Team Makes Its Biennial Pitch". New York Times.
  7. ↑ Frieze magazine review

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