seeing - gestural
In 1992 a Beijing painter/calligrapher (& psychologist) Gong Tie Gong collaborated in the Brussels studio employing a wide range of traditional materials and methods in the abstract (Xeiyi: ancient, not modern). A series followed, mainly represented on this site.
Though born and raised on the American West Coast, "The New" has long been a multi-cultural fusion including the use of ultra-refined oriental tools, materials and methods that provide a vast and comprehensive range of expression. An uncannily descriptive aesthetic language reflects what is seen, felt and experienced by artist and observer.
*an excerpt is on home page
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"The essential aspects of the artistic experience of Brian Averill are, in my view, divided up into two areas.The first is marked by abstract and informal experimentation that motivates both his aesthetic and spiritual life. The quintessence of his artistic message, being without reference to the concrete or the figure, finds its source in primordial depths. The second aspect is directly linked to the first and concerns the probable and perceptible confrontation between visual art and music. Averill is also a musician, something reflected in the visual characteristics of his works. Relative to the language of Averill, a triangle can be imagined, its base founded upon music and visual art. At its summit a spiritual tension is both the source and horizon of his expression..." - Giorgio Agnisola, Art Historian & critic, Italy (...reflecting on a series of paintings following collaborations with Gong Tie Gong, a Beijing painter/calligrapher in the Brussels studio)
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Formal study and death
Attended Portland State University (art, art history...), University of Maryland (BA), Fine Art Academies in Brussels & Antwerp. I worked labor, used English language in studios (EU) and was solicited for music festivals and studio album production. Invited to several other universities. When preparing for the final trip to the US in 1988 a hospital injury occurred checking for transient MS symptoms, resulting in a year of isolation as the world turned. Averill remained in Europe for medical oversight with a more internal life.
temp words:
There's a layering of cultural things in themselves defining art. In the medium we can draw from the universal, a portal beyond the worldly, if unconsciously. Regardless of European or Oriental, we are one in essence though having been a lifetime across the world. Growing up on the LA beaches and in mountainous N. Oregon is part of it, and such are the outer and can come in the expressions...what is from within and manifesting itself rather than a collection of material ideas and innovations on the surface level.