Brian Lo Solo Show at Manifest
Here’s a few photos of Brian Lo’s work at Manifest. My favorite piece is the last one, pictured at the bottom, which seems to me a Chuck Close painting in reverse. Where Close uses tiny square modules of abstract color and line to create a larger, photorealist portrait, Lo uses tiny photographs/portaits of people to create a larger, more abstract composition. (Close starts with abstraction and ends with realism; Lo starts with realism and ends with abstraction.) Lo takes it further by delineating two figures over the piece, which creates a portrait out of the combined photographs of his friends and family, which, according to him, he takes from myspace and facebook. His combination of traditional painting with digital manipulation is fresh and exciting, and i look forward to seeing more of his work. (Congrats, Brian!)
website: www.brianclo.com
