How She Lost

Brian Recent Work, Sculpture

Wood and Acrylic Latex Paint, dimensions variable, 2017. This piece, made up of three free-standing sculptures, is a visualization of the popular vote breakdown in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the 2016 presidential election. The height of each base is representative of the number of electoral votes of each state. The height of the smaller blue, red, and gray columns …

Trump’s Twitter Circus

Brian Online Works, Recent Work

Trump’s Twitter Circus, Website, 2017. Trump’s Twitter Circus is a visualization of the president’s use of punctuation in his tweets. The piece chronicles his Twitter feed in real time, displaying the ending punctuation as a block on the screen. A viewer can mouse over each block to read the text from the source tweet. Click here or on the “Launch …

Transition of Power (From Hope to Highrise Demagogy)

Brian Recent Work, Sculpture

Wood and Acrylic Latex Paint, dimensions variable, 2008 and 2017. The two sculptures comprising Transition of Power (From Hope to Highrise Demagogy) are extruded favicons for political campaigns. A favicon (“favorite icon”) is a 16-pixel by 16-pixel logo that appears alongside the URL or inside the tab in most browsers.  Here, a block of wood represents each pixel of the favicon, …

Untitled (T)

Untitled (T)

Brian Installation, Recent Work

Untitled (T). Black vinyl on structural column inside the Wright Gallery (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX), 128″ x 112″x 16″, 2017.

Political Bowl Season website -- 2012 Election

Political Bowl Season – 2012 Election Website

Brian Art, Online Works, Political Bowl Season

I was invited to be the featured artist at the Fotofest International booth for the 2012 Texas Contemporary Art Fair in Houston. I pitched the idea of expanding my football/politics mashup developed earlier in the year into an interactive website where visitors to the fair could vote – or “cheer” – the candidate of their choice in the general election. …

PBS 2012 General Election

PBS 2012: General Election Design Collateral

Brian Design, Political Bowl Season

Political Bowl Season began with an idea to merge political parties and campaign races with the fanaticism and pageantry of american football. During the primaries of the 2012 presidential campaign, I developed helmet designs using the logos of each of the remaining candidates. Click on each thumbnail below for a larger view.   Candidate stickers, each 4″ x 3″, handed out during the 2012 …

PBS 2012 Primaries helmet designs

Political Bowl Season – 2012 Primaries: Designs, Stickers, and Bunting

Brian Political Bowl Season

Political Bowl Season began with an idea to merge political parties and campaign races with the fanaticism and pageantry of american football. During the primaries of the 2012 presidential campaign, I developed helmet designs using the logos of each of the remaining candidates. Click on each thumbnail below for a larger view. [envira-gallery id=”173″] Next, in wanting to turn these designs into a more …