Brian Pier
Interpretive Realms
January 8 - January 29, 2010
Reception:
Thursday January 14, 2010 6-8 PM
Press Release
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.
Artist Statement
I paint almost exclusively in oil. I prefer to use a limited pallet and muted colors, exploring the subtle ways that light effects my subjects. I paint because it is who I am. Painting is as essential to my life as air and water. I consider myself an impressionist but like to explore other techniques. I am inclined to paint people and places in the simpler settings of life such as outdoor cafes, street markets, a stroll along the beach, or a beautiful landscape at sunset. I love what I do and I hope that passion translates to my work. I want my work to draw the viewer in so that they feel they are a part of the painting. I am very passionate about plein air painting. I love painting life as it happens around me and this helps me to continue to grow as an artist.
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