GRAND GALLERIES

Brian Mills

In The Grand Scheme of Things

(January 28, 2025 - February 25, 2025)

Grand Scheme by Brian Mills

Brian Mills “In The Grand Scheme of Things”

Artist Statement

Brian Mills is a young artist navigating the vibrant intersection of pop art, fashion, and music. I draw inspiration from cultural icons like Andy Warhol and Virgil Abloh, who have reshaped our understanding of art and its role within contemporary culture. My work reflects a fascination with the ways visual language can create dialogues around identity, consumerism, and the ephemeral nature of trends.

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In my pieces, I use bold colors, graphic shapes, and familiar motifs that resonate with popular culture, capturing the zeitgeist of our digital era. Each artwork serves as a commentary on how fashion and music influence our daily lives, shaping our perceptions and experiences. I strive to blend traditional artistic techniques with modern media, celebrating the fluidity of creativity in a world where boundaries between genres are increasingly blurred.

“In The Grand Scheme of Things,” I invite viewers to engage with the familiar and the unexpected, challenging them to reconsider the value of everyday objects and cultural phenomena. My exploration of iconography reflects a desire to elevate the mundane, transforming it into something thought-provoking and visually stimulating.

Ultimately, my aim is to create a space where art, fashion, and music coexist harmoniously, inviting a dynamic interaction that inspires a sense of community and shared experience. In the spirit of Warhol's celebration of consumer culture and Abloh's avant-garde approach to design, I seek to forge a path that honors tradition while embracing innovation, encouraging others to see the beauty and potential within the familiar.

Anna Kocher Memory and Longing

(January 28, 2025 - February 25, 2025)

Standing in the Solar Storm with You by Anna Kocher

Anna Kocher “Memory and Longing”

These paintings are an exploration of memory and longing. Lines dissolve between past and future, real and imagined, remembered and hoped for. Colors glow with yearning in a visual déjà vu. Inhabiting images from dreams, memories, old photos and ephemera and the visions these things evoke, these works reside in the liminal overlap between partially recalled memories and a longing that defies definition. The media and application themselves reinforce the theme with broken marks on a fragile surface; fragments of words and marks, sometimes harmonizing, sometimes discordant, always searching for revelation and connection between dissonant states. The partial, incomplete nature of the images echoes the fragmented quality of memory itself.