Brian Lund

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Brian Lund was born in 1974 in St. Paul, MN and currently lives and works in New York. He received his MFA from Purchase College, State University of New York in Purchase, NY and his BFA from College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, MN. His work has been exhibited in several New York based venues, including The Drawing Center, Chashama, Westchester Arts Council, and Artists Space. His current work will also be featured in the exhibition How Soon Is Now? AIM28 as part of the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York.

My recent drawings feature a self-invented graphic vocabulary – a coded, cryptic arrangement of dots, dashes, lines, numbers or other means of notational or diagrammatic tracking – to translate the editing systems of motion pictures into abstract compositions. I use an archive of charts, notes, lists and film-still sketches documenting various details within a film production to construct abstract drawings that interpret films as linear progressions or “chains” that connect with each other at various points.