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Brian Calvin is an influential contemporary American painter. Known for his large-scale, stylized portraits of women, his paintings are characterized by their sun-drenched palettes and flattened planes of color that recall Alex Katz or David Hockney. Though the artist explains that the figures in his work are not based on real people, he has described them as being specifically about Californian youth. “Although the figures I paint are entirely invented," he has said, “I pay close attention to how people construct their own identity and that certainly comes to bear on the paintings as they progress." Born in Visalia, CA in 1969, he went on to study at the University of California in Berkeley before earning his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Anton Kern Gallery in New York, Almine Rech Gallery in Paris, and Corvi-Mora in London, among others. His work can be found in numerous public collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Aïshti Foundation.
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Brian Calvin
Fine Art Drawings - 21.6 x 27.3 x 2.57 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.5 x 10.7 x 1 inch
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Exhibitions dedicated to Brian Calvin
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Cozy Up
From January 30, 2024 to February 27, 2024
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Happy Holidays 2023
From December 20, 2023 to January 1, 2024
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Red Dot Miami | Art Basel 2023 - Booth 408
From November 30, 2023 to December 5, 2023
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All Treats, No Tricks
From September 24, 2022 to October 29, 2022
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End to End Gallery at Artexpo Dallas 2022
From September 9, 2022 to September 15, 2022
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End to End Gallery at Art San Diego 2022
From August 30, 2022 to September 5, 2022
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Masters of Urban Contemporary Art
From March 20, 2021 to May 27, 2021
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