Brian Nelson [VIEW INFORMATION]  [VIEW GALLERY]   [VIEW BOTH]
Office: Sculpture Studio
Phone: (734) 487-0117

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Bio:

Brian Nelson was born in Coldwater, Michigan. He received a BFA in Sculpture from Western Michigan University in 1989 and a MFA in Sculpture from Michigan State University in 1992. He began teaching at EMU in 2000.

Recent publications, exhibitions and/or presentations:

• 2008, “Michigan Fine Arts Competition” Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
  

• 2008, “Medically Speaking” Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor MI.
  

• 2007, “Crisis”  Detroit Industrial Projects, Detroit , MI
  

• 2006, “Sculpture???” Four person show Meadowbrook art gallery, Rochester Hills, MI
  

• 2006, “Experiments” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI

Artist Statement:

“ How often art and Science, together and separately, have seduced us throughout time. Each discipline must remain current, new, informed by history yet able to cut the path. Artists strive to embrace our culture. They grab a tool and explore, interpret, astonish, and often educate, repeatedly motivated by their need to know and do something never known or done before.” (1)
My sculptures have always attempted to communicate the connection Rindler  quotes, I am consistently driven by a “need to know”. Tools and materials, and processes are palpable vehicles and quite easy to understand, conceptual relationships between materials and ideas present a more realistic and difficult struggle. My work has taught me a lot over the years most importantly how much I don’t know about all of these connections.
(1)Technoseduction, An introduction.
“To be seduced by Technology”
By Robert Rindler

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