Brian Fridge (born 1969 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American video artist. He earned a bachelor in fine arts from the University of North Texas, and a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Texas at Dallas.[1] In both 2005 and 2009, Fridge was a resident at CentralTrak, the University of Texas at Dallas artist residency.[2]

Exhibitions include the inaugural 2005 edition of the Turin Triennial [3] at the Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin, Italy and the 2000 Biennial Exhibition [4] of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His work is also exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art.[5]

His work has been described as "very Zen and wry".[6] A typical work is Vault Sequence (1995), recorded in the artist’s own apartment, the video “seems instead to have come directly from the Hubble telescope".[7] Brian Fridge's low-tech, poetic approach has a precedent in Arte Povera and his explorations of symbol and process are reminiscent of alchemy.

References

  1. "Brian Fridge" (PDF). BrianFridge.net. September 13, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  2. "New Faces at Centraltrak Artists Residency". 24 August 2009.
  3. "2005 Turin Trienniel artists". Archived from the original on 2010-03-14. Retrieved 2010-08-26.
  4. "Artists Selected for the 2000 Biennial (Published 1999)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2017-09-15.
  5. "Whitney Museum of American Art: Collection". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
  6. Michael Kimmelman (24 March 2000). "ART REVIEW; A New Whitney Team Makes Its Biennial Pitch". The New York Times.
  7. Frieze magazine review Archived July 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
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