"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)
"Men have become the tools of their tools" - Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862)
seeing - gestural
The above red seal, ch'i yûn, implies life-movement. "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 always in illusory state, but its imagery beauty of universe"*: unedited reflection on Buddhist/Taoist expression seals by interpreter, Tsu Tse U, 1995: in private study under registered Gongbi (fine brush) master, Zhang Shi Qing, on the N.Korean border. Art is illustrative, decorative and significantly, contemplative.
In the 90's a Beijing painter (& 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 experience... It's one world, one human race with freewill... New mediums explored: multimedia; early software HD "painting with light"; theatre and art film...
*excerpt is on the home page
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below: age 14 - S. California expos; schools of art
"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 '93
averillart@gmail.com
mankind is one - Bahá'í.org
