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Brian Schneider is a multi-disciplinary artist from Greenfield, WI. He received his BFA in 2014 from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and currently creates and shows work at Var Gallery and Studios in Milwaukee.  Brian works in drawing, painting, photography, mixed media sculpture and digitally.

My focus in the studio is creating custom panels of various shapes, which are then partially masked and painted over or otherwise altered. To create these pieces, first a recessed panel is created, and individual pieces of wood are cut, shaped and painted to fit within these panels.  The patterns of the panel create the ground on which the oil painted forms are meticulously rendered. I’m interested in this process of defacing what I so carefully constructed. I have started exploring this idea of defacement more with the use of pins puncturing a finished painting on canvas.

 

Much of my art is a vehicle for humor. They are funny ideas, metaphors or play on words. Some are absurdist, weird and just make me chuckle.  And some are more serious critiques on current events or the culture at large. Humor can help dampen painful experiences. Nostalgia and humor also help allow a person to let their guard down, allowing for harder to digest ideas get through. It can draw someone in and allow nuance to be seen where it may otherwise be looked over.

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