Brian David Dennis is a multimedia visual artist. His body of work ranges from large installations to small collages. From immersive to intimate, he extrudes the extraordinary from the common. He's constructed soaring towers of coffee stirrers and presented lost worlds discovered in minute street trash. His imagination manifests wondrous realms from our everyday world.

 

Much as he rummages for art materials, he plunders the art canon for influences. The project and the process dictate his sources. His tormented figures refer to Francis Bacon. The installations are direct descendants of Josef Svoboda's stage designs. Minimalist edicts temper his spontaneous chaos. Central to his aesthetic concerns are always balance, tension, and surface.

“The piece is the subject, not the content.”

 

There is a strong autobiographic thread running through his lifelong body of work. The narrative details in earlier projects were shrouded in diffusing layers. With a mature understanding, the confusion and conflict of his past have given way to peace. The always raw and emotive nature of his work is now infused with a powerful honesty.