Brian Gustafson
Artist Bio:
Brian Gustafson is an artist living and working in NY metro area. He enjoys the activity of making objects and fabricates works that he refers to as devices that heighten human awareness and sensitize viewers to the experience of empathy. He often utilizes simple natural phenomena such as wind, water, and light. His work consists of interactive and kinetic devices, sculpture, and installation, and his fondness of glass and metal is found throughout his work.
Brian Gustafson received his MFA from Illinois State University and his BFA from Tulane University. He has exhibited nationally and received numerous awards, including the New Jersey Council of the Arts Fellowship. He is currently the Assistant Professor of Sculpture at New Jersey City University.
"PROTECTION" by Brian Gustafson
This work is made of slumped glass produced from a direct casting of the shell of an ethically sourced taxidermy of an eastern slider turtle.
This work is part of a series, Protection. The Protection series translates forms into glass, thus performing a neat trick of simile through material fragility. The elegance and luster of the glass conflates a dynamic of beauty and somber contemplation of vulnerability. This series reflects on agitation induced in our contemporary culture, where threat and fear are perceived as fait accompli and traded as daily currency through media, entertainment and social platforms, as well as through our social comportment.
"AQUAE LUMEN" (video still) by Brian Gustafson
“Aquae Lumen” is a 7 foot cast glass sculpture with water video and atmospheric sound.
"Diffracted Light" by Brian Gustafson
Glass, Steel, Diffracting Film, Halogen Lights. This work is scaleable according to client’s location. To inquire: 201-744-6713
Site specific installation set in window, casts rainbows across the room via direct sunlight. Uplighting via direct light source in darkened environment.
"Diffracted Light" (night view)
Glass, Steel, Diffracting Film, Halogen Lights
Site specific installation set in window, casts rainbows across the room via direct sunlight. Uplighting via direct light source in darkened environment.
"Diffracted Light" casting its traveling rainbow across the gallery.
Site specific installation set in window, casts rainbows across the room via direct sunlight.
Interactive Installation - ‘Viewing Chamber’
The ‘Viewing Chamber’ is a glass and steel box of one-way mirrors that both allows and denies access to seeing, to observation, and to the gaze. It invites participants to enter an enclosed glass space, perched slightly above its surrounding, and consider visibility and the power of being seen or unseen.
"The Chamber"