Brian Pier

Wisconsin-based painter Brian Pier renders landscapes and street scenes in an impressionist style that is both incredibly evocative and richly detailed. Beautifully lit and oozing atmosphere, each delicately crafted oil painting creates the sense of being transported into its setting. Pier’s paintings are a feast for the eyes that also play on viewers’ other senses with lush textures, spectacularly colorful skies and waters. Booming sunlight casts a warming glow beyond the frame, windswept shores nearly seem to smell like a salty sea breeze, city streets clamor with the sounds of daily life.

There’s a timeless sensibility in each work that evokes landscape painters of the early 20th century, and yet they feel contemporary, not quaint. Pier offers these works as proof of the incredible complexity and wealth of everyday life. He often paints on site, rather than from photographs or sketches, which contributes to the transporting effect that each work evokes. Pier’s paintings bring viewers into an endlessly fascinating world as rich and sensual as our own.