Fleisher: Challenge Artists: Brian Coleman

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Brian Coleman

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Brian Coleman

	Portable Ornamental Footbridge, 1997, fir and hardware, 166" x 39" x 48" (LxWxH)

Maybe it was moving to New York that did it. The old absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder thing, but lately I've focused my investigations into how landscape is parceled and presented for our viewing. A common garden can be both an accurate portrait of a gardener and an incomprehensible parody of nature. Bonsai tree? Hoover dam?

EDUCATION
MFA, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA, 1996; BFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1990

EXHIBITIONS
Sculpture Center, New York, NY, Ten Days in October, 1997; Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, IL, solo show, 1993; Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, IL, solo show, 1992

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Established in 1978, the Challenge Exhibition Series is a regional juried competition that is committed to enriching and expanding people's lives through art. Several three-person shows, held each year from September through May, feature the work of regional artists chosen annually from over three hundred entries.