Brian Willmont

Background

Brian Willmont was born in 1983 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Education

Brian Willmont received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with High Distinction from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2007.

Career

Brian Willmont emerged to the art scene at the beginning of the 2000s. Since then, he has shown in solo exhibitions around the United States, including Victori + Mo Gallery, Guerrero Gallery, and the Boston Center for the Arts among others.

The artist has participated in many group shows as well, both within the country and abroad, presenting his at once symbolic and decorative artworks to the public in London, Stockholm, and Paris.

Living in New York City, Willmont is also involved in a curatorial activity. He is running Greenpoint Terminal Gallery in Brooklyn.

The artist has tried himself as an educator as well serving as a guest lecturer at Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Barbara and at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. He has also been an artist in residence at Santa Fe Art Institute.

Achievements

• Brian Willmont is an accomplished artist whose works attract viewers’ attention by his unique ability to convey the attachment of the modern world to the pervasive sugarcoated reality of the digital.
  
  The artist has been a recipient of such awards as the Arches Materials Award and Dolphin Paper Award, both in Boston. His art is represented in the collections of Credit Suisse, Fidelity Investments, and SoHo House.

Works

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• painting

  • Crybaby

  • Holy Mountain

  • Planned Obsolescence

  • Planned Obsolescence (Inverse)

  • Mirage

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  • Feeling Your Breath

  • Swallow Me

  • Magenta Milk Thief

  • White Poppies

  • Split

  • Here Today

  • Longing and Desire

  • Riptide

  • Candelabra

  • Twist and Shout

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  • Bio-Metamorphosis

  • Roses

  • Rubbings

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• sculpture

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Views

Brian Willmont expresses the main topic of his works, the influence of omnipresent technology, through the repeating and ever-changing patterns which are similar to wallpaper installations. Made mostly in pastel colors, Willmont’s refer to the temporal character of today’s lusts, obsessions, and addictions related to the abundance of the digital means of communication, like the internet, mobile phones, and various apps.

Lying on the line between commercial and fine art, Willmont’s art symbolizes the disease of the disconnection typical for our modern world of high technology.

References

• Brian Willmont's Official Website