Saxon Brice

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

I am a multi-medium, multi-disciplinary artist, working in oil painting, traditional draftsmanship, and digital image-making of all kinds. I’ve recently returned to my home in Los Angeles after spending time painting in the Old World of Florence, Italy, this past year. I went to Europe to seek out the roots of the classical, the True and the Beautiful, as I feel the weight of the contemporary art market quickly collapsing in on itself. I believe we’re entering a new age where bobbles, gizmos, and snarky ironic art-isms will quickly become too thin to justify any ongoing significance. I’m taking a leap of faith, betting big that authenticity and the human spirit re-emerge as currencies of a high cultural and market value. It seems to be on all the tongues, and in all the search histories of Millennials and Gen-Zers; what happened? where are we going? and what do we even believe in? Over the last several years I have endeavored to begin answering these questions, forging a dialogue between the contemporary and the classical, the digital and traditional, developing a two tier practice that is quickly coming into focus: Portraiture exploring radical empathy, and Conceptual Grand Narratives. My portraiture practice began as an unflinching investigation into the human heart and psyche through highly specific biographies. After I received a very positive reception to a series of paintings I did for Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw (2019), I began adapting elements of that expressionistic...

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