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BRIAN CHRISTENSEN
born 1963
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 52.
Brian Christensen was born 16 September 1963 in San Diego, California. He received his BFA from Brigham Young University and his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Brian has been a Visual Arts faculty member teaching sculpture and ceramics since 1993.
Cycles of birth, growth, decline, and entropy are inherent not only to all life but to all matter as we know it. I am interested in the cyclical nature of existence and particularly those stages in the cycle of an object, organism, or creation which evidences change and tells a story. In my work, these stories are told through the metaphorical relationships between forms. The way things come together and fall apart and the continual flux of time, motion, cause and effect are referenced in what I think of as sculptural allegories. Bending, torqueing, melting, mounding, hanging, dividing, falling, resting: the tectonic vocabulary of sculpture mimics the tendencies of life and earth.
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