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Artist Exhibitions:
Current and upcoming
exhibits:
Montana Art Gallery Directors
Assocation featured Artist:
Gallery 16
Great Falls
Montana
March 1st - April 1st, 2006
Ghost Art
Helena
Montana
ART in WASHOE PARK
Anaconda, Montana
Tel: 406-563-2422
July 15th,16th,17th, 2006
Anaconda Wildlife Expo
Anaconda
Montana
Sept 2006
Montichiari, Italy
Nov ...
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Artist Galleries:
RARE Art Gallery
West Broadway
Jackson Hole
Wyoming
Painted Pony Gallery
Big Sky,
Montana
Planet Bronze
Bozeman
Montana
Boyer Gallery
Commercial Ave
Anaconda
Montana
(Wildlife art)
Gateway Gallery
Park Ave
Anaconda
Montana
(Western and Abstract Art)
Ghost Art Gallery
21 Last Chance Gulch
Helena
Montana
Valley Bronze Galleries
Joseph, Oregon
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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:
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. Falls MT
Lynn Malley and Don Park,
Oakland, California
Mr. Scott Hamel, Phoenix,
Arizona
Mr. Gaylord Ingersoll,
Colorado/Montana
Ms. Kelly ...
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Commissions:
Commission currently in
progress for Fairmont
Hotsprings Convention Center,
Fairmont-Gregson, Montana.
Installation will be complete
late Fall 2005-Completed
December 2005 - Completed
Commission in progress for St.
Peter's Hospital, Helena,
Montana...
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Artist Statement for Brian Devon
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Brian Devon
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 the hand of the artist to be felt in the work. Within a very short space of time I began trying to enhance my images using various techniques, including applying tints from the kits that, in those distant days, came with Kodak black and white printing kits.
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 darkrooms in which to further my experiments with color, textures, tints and explore printing techniques both traditional and contemporary.
The work of such photographers as Nikolai Andreev and Robert Demachy, intrigued me, their work touched a nerve. Absorbing their art lead to my using techniques such as image lifts, adding pigments, layers of texture, the painted backgrounds that give my work the look and feel it has today.
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 leads to the images of today.
Now I think of the camera as part of a process, a foundation really, providing images and ideas on the road to the final work. I am inspired by the way light travels through layers of color, enhancing one, muting another, creating new blends and atmospheres, they become part of each other. My work reflects this interaction, building my images with transparent or opaque layers that, laid upon each other form the final image.
Each image is produced in a very limited series of 25.
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