Brian Gaman at the Parrish Museum
Brian Gaman exhibits Vanishing Point at the Parrish Art Museum from March 12 to April 24, 2016.
Beginning in the mid-1970s Brian Gaman embarked on a highly personal exploration of the nature and process of seeing. His ambiguous sculptures rest on the border between industrial cast-offs and intricate almost magical machines. Enigmatic large-scale works on paper suggest physical form that has somehow evaporated into the mist. In all his work, Gaman has sought to express a visual language that is seductive and unknowable. Fleeting and captivating, Gaman’s art implies that emotionally and compelling meaning can be teased from even the simplest visual gestures.
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Brian’s final exhibition “Vanishing Point” could have been his first with respect to his deep grasp of creation and nihilism Friends since we were teens, I believe this not from conversations, but from a lifetime of shared laughter in reaction to absurdites. I cannot think of any better title for his life’s work. In 1970, he asked me to accompany him first to Hollywood to rent a 70mm camera, then to a desert outside of Los Angeles. He requested I dress in white, and after setting-up, that I run away from him and the camera in a straight line…. vanishing point.