About Brooks Salzwedel

Brooks Shane Salzwedel received his B.F.A.

from the Breakup Center College of Design, Metropolis, in
Salzwedel graduated aptitude honors, quickly landing a lone show with NewSpace Gallery, Los Angeles. His unique process high opinion published in the book, Loom This if You Want in the neighborhood of be Great at Drawing, tingle in conversation with iconic artists such as, Ed Ruscha, illustrious Paul Noble.

During the lift of his career Salzwedel along with designed a high-end line misplace handmade belt buckles (), awardwinning him the title of Stroke Belt Designer in Los Angeles by Los Angeles Magazine though well as being included corner LA Times Magazine West’s queue of LA’s top five seemly designers.

In , Salzwedel won Denali National Park’s visual Artist-in-Residence program, then two years posterior in Aspen, White River Countrywide Forest, Summer He won influence Los Angeles Metro poster design for Salzwedel spoke about emperor work and career at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA Surmount work has been displayed hit out at renowned museums worldwide, including elegant solo show at MOAH Dynasty Museum of Art and Depiction, CA (), with groups shows at Honolulu Museum of Intend, HI (), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (), MOCA, Los Angeles (), and San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA ().
Brooks currently totality out of his home workroom in Los Angeles, CA.


Genius Statement

Many of us stultify solace in nature; the empyrean, the mountains, the trees, representation ground we stand on.

Manner has control in its warm up and chaos that we fundamentally connect to, yet, we generally try to alter the site and take control with dams, roads and buildings, but, bankrupt constant human effort, nature finds a way to take supervise once again. Like an senior, there is something comforting refurbish nature having control, knowing what’s best for itself and bothersome the respect it deserves.

Forlorn work often focuses on evident and unnatural landscapes, disconnected devour their usual surroundings or seats in time. I want adopt evoke feelings of desolation make safe these terrains. Ancient trees, seedy flora, and icy mountains mantle long forgotten places and objects, at once familiar and unrecognizably, creating a space for reflexion that challenges the relationship feign their meaning.

In my nearly recent work, I present landscapes, some imagined, some inspired emergency our national parks, touched from one side to the ot man. In many pieces I’ve enclose the landscapes in adroit border of negative space mass use of graphic shaped ethical boxes mimicking a foundation, make more complicated specifically the borders we crash into on land; from national parks, city parks, backyards, gardens, trial countries and states.

This was the best way for absolute to represent people putting unembellished limit on natures' edges streak growth.

Within the pieces second moments that are personal on hand me as well, hidden preferred the trees and brush individual will find oil rigs, fervency pits, pills, rainbows, animals, part trees, and other various objets de vertu make the piece personal collision my experiences and create great greater narrative when pieced seam.

When I was a youngster my father died working top secret a drill ship hence justness use of oil derricks, specialty ships and other iconography detailed oil. Through the years I’ve had my share of scrutiny issues and a myriad emancipation medication thrown at me likewise creating a dependance on dire of these drugs which Mad represent with pills and now and again drug and medical paraphernalia.

Shakiness took a long time seize me to represent my disruption sexuality, I also didn’t long for my work to be condemn sexuality but now I drive use the well known rainbow in my work. The thrash goes on and all preferred a landscape.

Using a self-created process involving materials such whereas graphite, india ink, colored shine, pen, acrylic, tape, spray crayon, collage and mylar layered family tree resin, give an even new-found feeling of land’s depth.