"When you give people too much information they instantly resort to pattern recognition. The contemporary artist is always seeking new patterns. Which is his task... the indispensability of the artist..." - Marshall McLuhan (interview 70's)
Have "men have become the tools of their tools" (Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862) with the bu or burgeoning of Tech? Is that the purpose? Does the reader want to be in the image of men or that of God?
Seeing - Gestural
In the early 90's a Beijing painter (& psychologist) Gong Tie Gong collaborated in the Brussels studio employing a wide range of traditional materials and methods applied in the abstract (Xeiyi). A series followed, mainly represented on this site.
The above red seal, ch'i yûn, implies life-movement. The excerpt on the home page is taken from the unedited reflection on Buddhist/Taoist (BCE) expression seals by interpreter, Tsu Tse U in 1995: "In unknown world the comprehension create new enlightenment and connection. Like in realm of freedom you are unity of aspiration and truth as an implication of life. You (are) always in (an) illusory state, but its imagery beauty of (the) universe": during private study under Gongbi (fine brush, realism) master, Zhang Shi Qing, on the N. Korean border.
Born and raised on the American West Coast, "The New" has long been a natural multi-cultural experience - it's one world - urged on by a Japanese art teacher in adolescence who snuck work in advanced expos to win awards... Universityof Maryland, Portland State U., Royal Academy of Fine Art Brussels & Antwerp
Other media explored: photography, early HD computer "painting with light" (Fractal Design soft); theatre and art film... music, soundscape composition and verse...
Statement about a series of paintings represented, in part ,on this site:
"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 (observation) 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..." - '93, Georgio Agnisola (art historian & critic, Italy)art historian and critic, Italy) each.
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below: age 14 - S. California expos
"Love is the light that guideth in the darkness" - since age 19 Brian has been in the cause for world peace, the focus of the Bahá'í movement, and has traveled in Europe and China in this far reaching cause.
"Religious, racial, political, economic and patriotic prejudices destroy the edifice of humanity. As long as these prejudices prevail, the world of humanity will not have rest."
Tablets to the Hague 1.11 - Bahá'í Writings
