brianbress

EDUCATION

2007
Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, Skowhegan, MA

2006
MFA, Painting & Drawing, University of California, Los Angeles

1998
BFA, Film/Animation/Video, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
Pardon Me, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 6 – February 10

2006
Sometimes You Are Just A Hat, RC Art Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 27 – December 8

2003
Brian Bress: New Drawings, Open-End Gallery, Chicago, IL, May 16 – June 1

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
(forthcoming) California Video, curated by Glenn Phillips, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Opening in March - dates to be determined.

2007
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April 14 – May 26

Beyond Image, curated by Elise Barclay, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, March 25 – June 10

Kairos!, curated by Rob Thom, Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March 10 – April 21

2006
Landslide: Works by Emerging California Artists, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC, December 9, 2006 – January 13, 2007

Naïve Set Theory, curated by Catherine Taft, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 11 - December 31

i know you, but you don't know me, Fette’s Gallery, Culver City, CA, October 20 - November 25

Greater LA MFA Exhibition and Screening, California State University, Long Beach, August 27 – September 7

One Shot 100x100, LA><ART, Culver City, CA, August 24  

Chain Letter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA, August 20 - August 31

Supersonic 2006, L.A Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, August 8 – September 10

Ecolux: Art in the Light of Ecology, Lightbox, Culver City, CA, July 22 – August 19

Just My Funny Way of Laughing, curated by Diana Nawi, South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, May 12 – June 10

Soft-Boiled Wonderland, curated by Genevieve Pepin and Morgan Satterfield, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, May 5 – May 28

Boat Show, curated by Brad Eberhard and Raffi Kalenderian, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA, April 15 – May 20

UCLA MFA Exhibition #1, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, March 30 – April 13

Rough Trade, curated by Peter Bartlett, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March 18 – April 22

The Latest Fiction, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 7 – February 25

2005
State of Emergence, curated by Doug Harvey, LA Weekly Biennial, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA October 8 - November 12

Untitled Play About Gravity by Krysten Cunningham, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, offsite performance, Los Angeles, CA, October 15

Character Traits, new collaborative works, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June 4 – June 26

Exhibition #9 - Some Romantic Landscape, curated by Monique van Genderen, Champion Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, January – February 19

2003
Anti-Spacesuit: The Dirty Future, G1 Gallery, Chicago, IL, August 23 – October 11

The Hideout and the Gene Siskel Film Center present Prime Shorts -- The Best of 2003, Chicago, IL

2001
Fellows' Invitational, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA,

1999
Young Guns NYC Biennial, The Art Directors Club of New York
New York, NY, December 3 – December 28

SELECTED SCREENINGS

2007
The Imminent Failure Show, UND#2 Art Fair, Over and Over, Hard Job, Karlsruhe, Germany March 21 – March 25

Video Day SXSW, Portrait Room, Over and Over, World Report, Hard Job, Brainquest, Okay, Mountain Gallery, Austin, TX, March 16 - March 17

The Imminent Failure Show, Over and Over, Hard Job, The Ice Factory, Chicago, IL, March 14

DigitalForum, Armory Center for the Arts, Portrait Room, Pasadena CA, March 6 – April 21

Neurotic Naturalism, Rock Cowboy, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY, March 2

1998
Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation, Karate Dick Boys La Jolla, CA, January – December

CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2004
Magic Show, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 10 – January 13, 2005

Dark Side of The Sun Wight Gallery, UCLA, October 7 – November 4

RESIDENCIES

2002
Vermont Studio Center, August 1- August 31

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007
Holte, Michael Ned. Reviews: Los Angeles, Brian Bress, Artforum, March, pp.325-326

Roth, Charlene. ‘Naïve Set Theory: Brian Bress, Julie Lequin, Jennifer Sullivan and Ami Tallman’ at Cirrus Gallery, Artweek January-February

2006
Dawson, Jessica. “A California 'Landslide' Cascades Into Addison/Ripley” Washington Post, December 23

Kennon, Brian. " Television could be much better: Brian Bress" NY Arts Magazine, November – December

Russel, Christopher. “Kennon’s Cannons, Labor of Love Begets Publishing House”, Artillery, Novemeber, pp.22

Register, Craig. “Sometimes You Are Just A Hat”, RC News, Fall, pp.13

Myers, Holly: "The master and his followers," Los Angeles Times, March 31, E 25.

Taft, Catherine. “Rough Trade” Critics’ Picks, Artforum.com, May

2005
Harvey, Doug: "State of Emergence, Undiscovered cracks in the art-world infrastructure: a catalog," LA Weekly, October 28, pp.46-47.

2004
Frank, Peter. “Magic Show: curated by Brian Bress”, Artcircles.org, AC #3, Winter 2004-2005

2003
Camper, Fred. “Anti-Spacesuit: The Dirty Future”, Chicago Reader, pp.33, September 5

Cover Image, Two Scenes From a Party, Chicago Review, Volume 49, Number 1, Spring

1999
Susman, Gary. “Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation”, Village Voice, January 27

Under Cover, DVD Video, 13 minutes, 20 seconds, 2007