Brian Calvin Visalia, CA, USA , b. 1969

Lives and works in Ojai, CA.

Calvin studied at the University of California, Berkeley and at The Art Institute of Chicago. He received the California Arts Council Fellowship and an art residency from Art Production Fund, Giverny, France.

Calvin developed a figurative pictorial style with a close-up treatment of subjects, highly composed structures, and luminous colors lying flat. His technique is a type of abstraction in the representation of certain details. His portraits of bleary-eyed youth are painted featuring backgrounds that Calvin describes as “general” glimpses of the California coast. 

Calvin has exhibited at Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Corvi Mora, London; Cabinet, Milan; Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA; and Gallery Side 2, Tokyo. Among his group exhibitions are at Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, among other places.

His work is included in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.

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