My drawings translate motion picture timelines into abstract compositions.  Working from my own study notes, lists and accompanying research, I work with graphite and colored pencil to create works on paper that primarily make visible the editing structures of films. My practice brings together aspects of conceptual mapping, data visualization, graphic notational scoring, and improvisational mark making. I seek to provide alternative visual means in which classic cinematic works can be envisioned, compressing a range of content into a language of marks, gesture, color, shape, and the occasional written word, navigating the world of movies through the aesthetic world of abstraction.


I received my MFA from Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY and my BFA from College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN. My work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at numerous venues, including The Drawing Center, New York, NY; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Smith-Stewart, New York, NY; Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY; Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY; Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY; Feldman Gallery + Project Space, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; David Krut Projects, New York, NY; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT and Here Arts Center, New York, NY, among others. My work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Time Out New York, Art Papers, Art Review, and Portland Mercury. I was a 2009 NARS Studio Residency Program recipient. In 2008, I was a participant in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. I currently live and work in Ridgewood, NY.



Solo Exhibitions


2011


Brian Lund: Film Scripts, Free Museum of Dallas, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX


2009


Brian Lund: New Work (Curator: Mack McFarland), Feldman Gallery + Project Space, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR


A Very Real and Very Dark Time, Smith-Stewart, New York, NY



Selected Group Exhibitions


2011


Surreptitious Fondness (Curator: Eun Young Choi) NARS Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Viewfinder: Seledted Works from the NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program, ArtGate Gallery, New York, NY


cartoGraphic, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY


2010


COMPOSE!, Smith-Stewart @ David Krut Projects, New York, NY


2009


Two Degrees of Separation, Gallery SATORI, New York, NY


Pink Panther (Curator: Amy Smith-Stewart with Hannah Dumes and Nicole O'Rourke), Smith-Stewart @ KUMUKUMU Gallery, New York, NY


unmistakable (Curator: Brad Greenwood), Here Arts Center, New York, NY


display/displaced (Curator: Kirsten Nelson), Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY


2008


Red Badge of Courage ReVisited (Curator: Omar Lopez-Chahoud), Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ


Archaeology of Wonder (Curator: Kristina Newman-Scott), Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT


intransit (Curator: Omar Lopez-Chahoud), Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY


microwave, six, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY


Inaugural Show, B42 Gallery, Oakville, Ontario, Canada


How Soon is Now? AIM 28, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (cat.)


Selections Spring 2008 (Curator: Nina Katchadourian), The Drawing Center, New York, NY (cat.)


2007


Matriculations, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT


Memento Mori (Curator: Mariko Tanaka), the:artists:network, New York, NY


2006


YEA! Young Emerging Artists, Westchester Arts Council, Greenwich, CT


Lumpy, Bumpy & Pink, MFA Thesis Exhibition, chashama, Times Square, NY


2005


10-4, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY


2004


All of the Above, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY



Special Projects


2011


Maharam Digital Projects, project collaborator



Education


2006


MFA Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY


1998


BFA College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN



Scholarships, Residencies and Awards


2009


NARS Foundation Studio Residency


2008


Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts


2006


MFA Student Recognition Award

Chancellor's Award Nomination


2005


David Schwartz Scholarship


2004


Donald Steckler Endowment Scholarship


2001


Summer Studio Residency, School or Visual Arts, NYC



Benefits/Events


The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Exit Art, New York, NY

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA

Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

NARS, Brooklyn, NY

Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY



Bibliography


2010


Art, Word and Image: 2000 Years of Visual/Textual Interaction, John Dixon Hunt, David Lomas and Michael Corris, London: Reaktion Books, pp. 303, 305, 307.


2009


Russeth, Andrew. "Brian Lund, A Very Real and Very Dark Time, at Smith-Stewart (Review)."(www.16miles.com), February 8.


Rosenberg, Karen. "Art in Review: Pink Panther." The New York Times, October 16: C27.


Radon, Lisa. "Review: Brian Lund, New Work." Portland Monthly: Culturephile: Portland Arts, (http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com), October 3.


Stangel, Matt. "Review: Brian Lund at PNCA." Portland Mercury (http://tba.portlandmercury.com/tba), September 11.


McFarland, Mack. TBA:09 On Sight: 16-17.


McFarland, Mack. "An Interview with Brian Lund." Untitled. Pacific Northwest College of Art Online Magazine, (http://untitled.pnca.edu/articles/show/408).


TBA:09, Catalog, Portland Institute For Contemporary Art: 70-71.


Thompson, Adam. "Brian Lund." Art Papers, May/June: 63.


JC. "Brian Lund." The Portland Mercury (www.portlandmercury.com).


Coburn, Tyler. "Reviews Marathon, New York," Art Review, Issue 31, April: 81.


Sutton, Benjamin. "Wicked Artsy: Working With What You Get," The L Magazine (www.thelmagazine.com), March 6.


Conner, Jill. "Brian Lund at Smith-Stewart Gallery," ArtQuips, (http://artquips.blogspot.com), January 27.


2008


Hoffman, Hank. "Diverse 'Archaeology of Wonder' show at Real Art Ways," Connecticut Art Scene (http://ctartscene.blogspot.com), December 10.


Kilston, Lyra. "Artist's Space: Brian Lund." ...might be good, (www.fluentcollab.org/mbg), Issue #105, September 5.


Coburn, Jesse. "Reviews: microwave, six," Time Out New York, Issue 675, September 4-10: 95.


Smith, Roberta. "Artists Leap Into the Moment," The New York Times, July 25: E30.


Riley-Lopez, Erin. "How Soon Is Now?" Catalog Essay, Bronx Museum of the Arts, June 1-August 18.


Jenks, Debra. "Drawing the invisible; Transcribing the space of movies, motion and other worlds," The Villager, Vol. 77, Number 41, March 19-25.


Drawing Papers 75, New York: The Drawing Center: 14-15.


2006


Gouveia, Georgette. "Young artists take center stage," The Journal News, June 23.


2005


"Grad student art show at Purchase," Greenwich Time, December 9.


Zimmerman, Aaron. "Rider Project 2004," NY Arts, January/February.



Visiting Artist Lectures/Artist Talks


2012


Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX


2011


ArtGate Gallery, New York, NY


NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY


2010


David Krut Projects, New York, NY


2009


Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York


Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR


2008


Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT



Collections


Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University


New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell Medical Center


Pacific Northwest College of Art