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Artist Exhibitions:
Montana Art Gallery Directors
Assocation featured Artist:
Gallery 16
Great Falls
Montana
Ghost Art
Helena
Montana
Anaconda Wildlife Expo
Anaconda
Montana
Montichiari, Italy
Nov 30th - Dec 6th
ARTEXPO
New York City
March 1 - 5
March 2010Gallery 16
Great Falls
Montana
Uptown Cafe - featured Artist
Butte
Montana
May/June 2009Hilton Hotel...
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Artist Galleries:
RARE Art Gallery
West Broadway
Jackson Hole
Wyoming
Montana Frameworks
141 Main St.,
Kalispel
Montana
Planet Bronze
Bozeman
Montana
Gateway Gallery
Park Ave
Anaconda
Montana
Ghost Art Gallery
21 Last Chance Gulch
Helena
Montana
Valley Bronze Galleries
Joseph, Oregon
and Astoria, Oregon
Gallery 16
608 Central Ave
Great Falls,
Montana
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Artist Reviews:
"This Artist portrays a vision
and style unlike any artist
working today"
Montana Art Gallery Directors
Association.
Profile: Brian Devon - Beyond
The Medium
Good art doesn’t just show you
something, it makes you feel
something. It gives you a
sense of the subject matter
that goes deeper than the...
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Collections:
Brian Devon's art is held in
over 30 collections, State,
Corporate and Private
throughout the United States
and Europe including:
Office of the Governor - Brian
Schweitzer - State of Montana
First National Bank of Montana
The Gold Street Clinic, Butte,
Montana
St.Peter's Hospital, Helena,
MT/Civic Design, Gt...
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Commissions:
Commission completed for
Richard and Elizabeth Willett,
Philipsburg, Montana
Commission in progress for St.
Peter's Hospital, Helena,
Montana
Commission currently in
progress for Fairmont
Hotsprings Convention Center,
Fairmont-Gregson, Montana.
Installation will be complete
late Fall 2005-Completed
December 2005 - Completed
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Artist Statement for Brian Devon
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Born in Dublin, Ireland, my journey in image making began when I was around eight years old. I must have expressed an interest in photography because Santa Claus placed a beginner’s photo chemistry kit under our Christmas tree.
My parents had a old fashioned brass bed with heavy blankets that reached the ground. It was under there that I set up my “alchemists cave” and began a life long experiment in image making.
For me there is a need to express something more than the perfect likeness that the camera captures, an inherent desire for my hand to be felt in the work.
I worked in several studios in Dublin, Ireland and London, England and San Francisco and had the priceless opportunity to watch some great professionals at work. During that time I also had access to state of the art studios in which to further my experiments with color, textures, and explore techniques both traditional and contemporary.
The work of such photographers as Nikolai Andreev and Robert Demachy, Sarah Moon intrigued me, as did the look of the movie Elvira Madigan by Bo Widerberg, all these collectively pointed to a possibility. Combining some of the techniques of these artists lead to my developing the methods that give my work the distinctive look and feel it has today.
Those familiar with my work will notice I have returned to my roots and renewed my love of black and white. I have, at least for some of the newer work, temporarily, forsaken the color techniques I've used in the recent past. I have been reminded that I always felt black and white was like listening to the radio, the viewer (listener) has an input forged in their imagination and therefore is a participant in the process.
Over the years these techniques evolved on the road to finding my own voice in the world. I suppose the pursuit of art is a search for your own voice. I have been lucky enough to have found a path to mine, and more importantly been able to share it with those who enjoy what I do.
It was a long and interesting development. The work I produced for my first exhibition in 1982, clearly showed the birth of an style that lead to the images of today.
Available in a Limited Edition of 50 images on archival 100% cotton photorag paper. The price increases by 25% after each 15 in the edition.
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