Brian Fridge (born 1969 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American video artist. He earned a bachelor in fine arts from the University of North Texas, and a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Texas at Dallas.[1] In both 2005 and 2009, Fridge was a resident at CentralTrak, the University of Texas at Dallas artist residency.[2]
Exhibitions include the inaugural 2005 edition of the Turin Triennial [3] at the Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin, Italy and the 2000 Biennial Exhibition [4] of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His work is also exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art.[5]
His work has been described as "very Zen and wry".[6] A typical work is Vault Sequence (1995), recorded in the artist’s own apartment, the video “seems instead to have come directly from the Hubble telescope".[7] Brian Fridge's low-tech, poetic approach has a precedent in Arte Povera and his explorations of symbol and process are reminiscent of alchemy.
References
edit- ^ "Brian Fridge" (PDF). BrianFridge.net. September 13, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
- ^ "New Faces at Centraltrak Artists Residency". 24 August 2009.
- ^ "2005 Turin Trienniel artists". Archived from the original on 2010-03-14. Retrieved 2010-08-26.
- ^ "Artists Selected for the 2000 Biennial (Published 1999)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2017-09-15.
- ^ "Whitney Museum of American Art: Collection". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Michael Kimmelman (24 March 2000). "ART REVIEW; A New Whitney Team Makes Its Biennial Pitch". The New York Times.
- ^ Frieze magazine review Archived July 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine