“I wish to enhance the sacredness of life and always present our wonder and our dilemma as catalysts for the observer’s feelings. I wish to make images that will console the viewer. Art and the holy are twins. Rembrandt, Kollwitz pray with muddy and bloody hands. Life is hard and the struggle must, in time, grace the work.”
-Jerome Witkin
Welcome
My name is Brian Dang. I am a versatile and open-minded artist. I believe in the potential of art to bridge the gap between human beings and their experiences. I believe that by focusing on our conscious experiences art can be a channel to improve our human catalyst to responding to life. I find great satisfaction in working with my own experiences and others I am in collaboration with. Whether I am creating a memorial piece or self-reflective piece, I believe in art as an influence to thoughts and behaviors of other people. I believe as an artist I am more capable than art-marking and, accordingly, engaged in the enterprise of persuasion of having a story to tell. As a creator my contribution to society is adhered to the story of my chosen to express the human experience.
Nothing motivates me more to making work than to listen carefully to all points of view and incorporating the marginalized ideas to the surface-injustice, victimized, brokenness, etc. As my portfolio indicates, my subject matters are diverse, but overall the best thing I learned at George Mason was how to be a voice. I know how to think visually and how to speak visually, and be empowered as well as present empowerment through my work speaking on those behalf.
