Destination Alaska

Product Description

Destination Alaska by Brooks Salzwedel
10″ x 8″, Graphite, Ink, Tape, Wax, Mylar on Panel

Current Exhibition at Flower Pepper Gallery: 40 x 400, curated by Mark Todd from January 10th to February 3rd, 2015

Artist Biography:
Brooks Shane Salzwedel
Born: 1978 – Long Beach, CA
BFA – Honors/Distinction – Art Center College of Design, 2004

Salzwedel’s work focus landscapes that reflect the subtle friction between urban development and nature. His work evokes the fragility of our environments often giving hints of mankind’s encroachment on massive landforms such as mountains and forests as well as the animals which inhabit them. His medium of choice is a statement of this clash – graphite, a natural mineral, resin, a byproduct of plant materials, and mylar, a manufactured film. With this process by use of graphite, colored pencil, spray paint and tape on semi-transparencies and resin on panel, Salzwedel is able to accomplish ethereal artworks with a sense of depth. Salzwedel casts some of these pieces in vintage medicine tins and corroded pipe-ends, lending an intimate quality to the works. As a whole he brings these together creating a beauty and calm out of the detritus we have laid upon the earth.

Brooks Salzwedel earned his BFA Cum Laude from Art Center College of Design in 2004. Since graduating from Art Center, Salzwedel has shown at galleries throughout the East and West Coast. His work has been displayed at the Hammer Museum and MOCA, and acquired by The Houston Museum of Contemporary Art and the Portland Art Museum. He has been commissioned by Ron Herman at Fred Segal and The Four Seasons hotel in Washington DC. In addition to his fine art practice, Salzwedel is the designer and producer of an award winning line of belt buckles, featured in Los Angeles Magazine’s Best Of issue among many other publications. Brooks Salzwedel lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

2014
Interview with Blisss Magazine
Feature in SupersonicArt
Featured in Booooooom
Interview with Art Questions Blog (Russian): http://vk.com/artquestion?w=wall-76656691_29
Featured artist @ Ntropic Visual Design Studios San Francisco, CA – May 15th
Terra – group show @ Nucleus Gallery Alhambra, CA – March
posted on Surface & Surface

2013
Cover art for Man appears in the Holocene
Featured Artist in Frrresh
Write up on WeOccupy
Goodeye Gallery @ Deasy Penner showroom: group show – December, 2013
Article in GreyNotGrey.com
Write up in SF/Arts – NY Times, Bay Area edition.
Invisible Lands: Write up in East Bay Express
Post on Artsy Forager
Write up on The Jealous Curator
Post on Electronic Supersonic
Temporal Void – Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
Post-it show, Giant Robot, Los Angeles, CA
Interview with Entre Magazine
Published in Cercle Magazine
Cityscape Show III – group show, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA – August
Kindred – group show, Hype Bold Gallery, New York, NY
Lined in Lead – group show, Nucleus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012
My Modern Met Blog
Madame La Marquise, Barcelona, Spain
New American Paintings #103
American Art Collector #83 – September
The Cityscape Show – George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Interview with DesignBoom.com
Write-up in Boooooooom.com
Feature in ArtLTD
Line Weight at Nucleus Gallery (group show), Los Angeles

2011
Illustration for The New York Times
Power Punch @ Giant Robot – February 2011
Standard Deviation @ Seeline Gallery at the PDC – January 2011

2010
Art London Fair – October 2010
Future Faded – Bo.Lee. gallery – Bath, England – September, 2010
Four Seasons – Washington D.C. commissions – Unveiling June, 16th
Post-It show – GRNY – June 2010
Oodles of Doodles – Tinlark Gallery – April, 2010

2009
Aqua Miami Art Fair – Dec. 3rd-6th 2009- www.aquaartmiami.com
Quinquennium Exhibitum: Nucleus Gallery’s 5 Year Anniversary Exhibition
LOS ANGELES TIMES – Piece Featured for Culture Monster – East of Eden turns into Beyond Eden Art Fair at Barnsdall
BEYOND EDEN – Mutli-Gallery Exhibition – Bob Dob, Brooks Salzwedel, Chris Mars, Chris Roberts-Antieau, Christopher Ulrich, Daniel Peacock, Dave Cooper, JAW Cooper, Liz McGrath, Nathan Ota, Owen Smith, PJ Fidler, Ron English, Ronald Kurniawan, Shepard Fairey – LAMAG Barndall Park – Los Angeles, CA
PHYLUM KINGDOM – Brooks Salzwedel and Tracy Barbosa – Black Maria Gallery – Atwater, CA
LA VIE EN ROSE : www.roseapodaca.com
MOMENTUM – Group show – July – Brooks Salzwedel, Tiffany Bozic, Tessar Lo, Veronique Meignaud, Chigi – Nucleus Gallery – Alhambra, CA
KITSUNE NOIR – July – Feature of Momentum
CA|BOOM – June – Art and Design showcase – Beverly Hills, CA
WE LOVE YOU SO – May – Featured on Spike Jonze’s site for Land Makers
LAND MAKERS – Solo show – May – Tinlark Gallery – Hollywood, CA
FRESH StART – February – Group Show Fund Raiser Para Los Niños – Brooks Salzwedel, Johnny Detiger, Alexandra Grant, Souther Salazar, Esther Pearl Watson, Megan Whitmarsh, Mary Ann Strandell – Santa Monica, CA

2008
ARTWEEK – November – Review of East of Eden featured works
NEW ANGELES MAGAZINE – Review of East of Eden featured works
NO BROW- Group Show – September – Brooks Salzwedel, Oksana Badrak, John Casey, Ken Garduna – Black Maria Gallery – Atwater, CA
EAST OF EDEN – September – Multi-Gallery Exhibition – Los Angeles, CA
MODERN SOIL – June – Brooks Salzwedel and John Palmer – Black Maria Gallery – Atwater, CA
GALLERY GUIDE WEST – January – featured works
BY FAULT OF ITS OWN – January – Solo show + Time Flies group show – Ryan Berkley, Gavin Bunner, Diem Chau, YaYa Chou, Takashi Iwasaki – Tinlark Gallery – Hollywood, CA

2007
ULTRA-AUTUMN – September – Solo Show – R3 Gallery – San Diego, CA
WISTFUL THINKING – September – Review in San Diego Union-Tribune
STICKING TO THE STORY – May – Featured in NYArts Magazine
ART & CULTURE – March – Featured in Juxtapoz Magazine
PALE ANALOGIES – Group Show – Brooks Salzwedel, Marci Washington, Brendan Monroe, Evah Fan, Zachary Rossman – The Public Trust, Dallas, TX

2006
FASHION ACCOMPLICES – December – Featured in Los Angeles Times Magazine WEST
HIDDEN – October – Brooks Salzwedel and Harvest Henderson – Black Maria Gallery – Atwater, CA
BEST OF LOS ANGELES – August – Featured in Los Angeles Magazine Best of Issue
TESTING GROUND – May – Featured in ArtReview
HALCYON – April – Brooks Salzwedel and Mike Lohr – Newspace Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
LOVELY ABOMINATIONS – Group Show – Lesley Reppeteaux,Brooks Salzwedel, Shaunna Peterson, Calef Brown, Jaime Zollars, Travis Chatham, Jacob Magraw – Thinkspace Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
OH DEER- March – Solo show – OKOK Gallery – Seattle, WA
SUPER-SINCERE – January – Group Show Curated by Aaron Smith – On Gallery – Pasadena, CA

2005
SHIPWRECKED – Group Show – American Tattoo – Los Angeles, CA
EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SYNC – Group Show – La Luz De Jesus – Los Angeles, CA

2004
BROKEN SWEETLY – Brooks Salzwedel and Mike Lohr – Antai-Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
5000 DRAWINGS – Group Show – MOCA – Los Angeles, CA

Artist Website: http://www.brookssalzwedel.com/

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