Born: 1978 - Long Beach, CA
BFA - Art Center College of Design, 2004
Artist Statement
Brooks Shane Salzwedel's work focuses on natural and unnatural landscapes disconnected from their usual surroundings or places in time. Evoking feelings of desolation, loneliness, lapse in time, and confusion of places. Through these terrains: ancient trees, decaying flora, and icy mountains obscure long forgotten places and objects, at once familiar and unrecognizable, creating a space for rumination that challenges the relationship to their meaning. Hidden within the trees and brush one will find oil rigs, fire pits, pills, rainbows, logos, planes, and other various, carefully placed images which make the pieces personal and create a greater narrative when linked together. Using a self-created process gives an even further feeling of land’s depth and inclusion in these worlds.
C.V.
Brooks Shane Salzwedel received his B.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena in 2004. Salzwedel graduated with honors while working on his first solo show with NewSpace Gallery, Los Angeles. His unique process is published in the book, Read This if You Want to be Great at Drawing along with iconic artists including Ed Ruscha and Paul Noble. In 2015 Salzwedel was accepted into Denali National Park’s visual Artist-in-Residence program and two years later in Aspen, White River National Forest, Summer 2017. His work has been commissioned by popular UK singer Novo Amor and the Guthrie Theater amongst many other organizations. Salzwedel has given talks about his work and career from institutions including Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA to the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA. His work has been displayed at renowned museums worldwide including a solo show at MOAH, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, CA (2018) and group shows at Honolulu Museum of Art, HI (2017), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010), MOCA, Los Angeles (2010), and San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2009). Brooks currently works out of his home studio in Los Angeles, CA.
EDUCATION
2004 Art Center College of Design, BFA, Cum Laude, Pasadena, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Isolate/Don't Isolate at Benjamin Eck Gallery, Munich, Germany
2018 Rut in the Soil, Exhibition at MOAH Lancaster Museum of Art and History with Thinkspace Gallery
2018 Dust and Dawn, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Lost Lands, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA,
2016 Descanso Gardens, commission via Metro LA,
2014 Nat’l Parks, Gbg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Temporal Void, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
2012 Of Steel, Cement & Earth, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 Bo Lee Gallery, Bath, UK
2009 Phylum Kingdom, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Land Makers, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Modern Soil, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 By Fault Of Its Own, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Ultra Autumn, R3 Gallery, San Diego, CA
2006 Hidden, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Halcyon, Newspace Gallery, Hollywood, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 ETA30. Nahcotta Gallery, NH August
2021 Tondo. Spoke Gallery, NYC June
2021 Other Nature. Foley Gallery, NYC March
2021 Creative Resource, Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA Jan.
2020 Magnum Opus, Wanderlife Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Surreal Sublime, SJICA, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2018 Remembered/Imagined, Paradigm Gallery and Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 LAX/PDX, Antler Gallery with Thinkspace Gallery, LA and OR
2018 Audio/Visual, Nahcotta Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
2018 Untitled Group Show, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Forget What You Know, Sp[a]ce Ayzenberg Center, Pasadena, CA
2017 Scope Fair, Thinkspace Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 LUSH, MAK Center, collaboration with Superjacent, Los Angeles, CA
2017 PowWow! Thinkspace Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2016 Panorama, Eastfield Collage, Austin, TX
2016 Through the Woods, Giant Robot 2, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Terra, Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, CA
2013 The Cityscape Show III, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Bold, Hype Gallery, New York, NY
2012 The Hammer Museum store, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Power Punch, Giant Robot, New York, NY
2011 Standard Deviation, See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Art London, Bo Lee Gallery, London, UK
2009 East Of Eden, LAMAG, Multi-Gallery Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Fresh StART, Fundraiser Para Los Niños
2009 Everything But The Kitschen Sync, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
BLOG FEATURES
Sp[a]ce Gallery Interview for Forget What You Know on YouTube
Booooooom.com
Supersonic Art
Audio interview The Jealous Curator podcast or itunes
American Illustration 35th ed.
East Bay Express - Invisible Lands
Los Angeles Times
Supersonic
Booooooom
Surface & Surface
The Jealous Curator
Supersonic
My Modern Met
Designboom
PUBLICATIONS
Lampoon Magazine, Italy
Read his Book if you want To make Great Drawings, King Publishing
American Art Collector
New American Paintings
New York Times, “Green Grid”
GQ Magazine
ArtWeek, East of Eden
Los Angeles Times, Beyond Eden
ArtReview, “Testing Ground”
New Angeles Magazine, East of Eden
Drawing Magazine - Noteworthy
San Diego Tribune, “Wistful thinking”
Juxtapoz Magazine, Art & Culture
NYArts Magazine, “Sticking to the story”
Los Angeles Magazine, Best of issue
Los Angeles Times Magazine WEST
Lucky Magazine
TimeOut New York Magazine
CLIENTS / COMMISSIONS
Novo Amor Album Artwork
Collaboration with J Skis
Guthrie Theater
Commission LA METRO
Tia Mowry Cooking Show
Fog Land Wine (ClubW)
Man Appears in the Holocene
The New York Times
L.A. Weekly
Geffen Records
COLLECTIONS
Denali National Park, AK Collection
White River National Forest, CO Collection
MōDUS Moore College of Art & Design Philadelphia Permanent Collection
Four Seasons Hotel Washington D.C.
Four Seasons Hotel Lana’i Koele, Hawaii
The Houston Museum of Contemporary Art
Portland Art Museum
Blum Collection
BFA - Art Center College of Design, 2004
Artist Statement
Brooks Shane Salzwedel's work focuses on natural and unnatural landscapes disconnected from their usual surroundings or places in time. Evoking feelings of desolation, loneliness, lapse in time, and confusion of places. Through these terrains: ancient trees, decaying flora, and icy mountains obscure long forgotten places and objects, at once familiar and unrecognizable, creating a space for rumination that challenges the relationship to their meaning. Hidden within the trees and brush one will find oil rigs, fire pits, pills, rainbows, logos, planes, and other various, carefully placed images which make the pieces personal and create a greater narrative when linked together. Using a self-created process gives an even further feeling of land’s depth and inclusion in these worlds.
C.V.
Brooks Shane Salzwedel received his B.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena in 2004. Salzwedel graduated with honors while working on his first solo show with NewSpace Gallery, Los Angeles. His unique process is published in the book, Read This if You Want to be Great at Drawing along with iconic artists including Ed Ruscha and Paul Noble. In 2015 Salzwedel was accepted into Denali National Park’s visual Artist-in-Residence program and two years later in Aspen, White River National Forest, Summer 2017. His work has been commissioned by popular UK singer Novo Amor and the Guthrie Theater amongst many other organizations. Salzwedel has given talks about his work and career from institutions including Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA to the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA. His work has been displayed at renowned museums worldwide including a solo show at MOAH, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, CA (2018) and group shows at Honolulu Museum of Art, HI (2017), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010), MOCA, Los Angeles (2010), and San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2009). Brooks currently works out of his home studio in Los Angeles, CA.
EDUCATION
2004 Art Center College of Design, BFA, Cum Laude, Pasadena, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Isolate/Don't Isolate at Benjamin Eck Gallery, Munich, Germany
2018 Rut in the Soil, Exhibition at MOAH Lancaster Museum of Art and History with Thinkspace Gallery
2018 Dust and Dawn, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Lost Lands, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA,
2016 Descanso Gardens, commission via Metro LA,
2014 Nat’l Parks, Gbg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Temporal Void, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
2012 Of Steel, Cement & Earth, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 Bo Lee Gallery, Bath, UK
2009 Phylum Kingdom, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Land Makers, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Modern Soil, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 By Fault Of Its Own, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Ultra Autumn, R3 Gallery, San Diego, CA
2006 Hidden, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Halcyon, Newspace Gallery, Hollywood, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 ETA30. Nahcotta Gallery, NH August
2021 Tondo. Spoke Gallery, NYC June
2021 Other Nature. Foley Gallery, NYC March
2021 Creative Resource, Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA Jan.
2020 Magnum Opus, Wanderlife Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Surreal Sublime, SJICA, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2018 Remembered/Imagined, Paradigm Gallery and Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 LAX/PDX, Antler Gallery with Thinkspace Gallery, LA and OR
2018 Audio/Visual, Nahcotta Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
2018 Untitled Group Show, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Forget What You Know, Sp[a]ce Ayzenberg Center, Pasadena, CA
2017 Scope Fair, Thinkspace Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 LUSH, MAK Center, collaboration with Superjacent, Los Angeles, CA
2017 PowWow! Thinkspace Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2016 Panorama, Eastfield Collage, Austin, TX
2016 Through the Woods, Giant Robot 2, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Terra, Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, CA
2013 The Cityscape Show III, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Bold, Hype Gallery, New York, NY
2012 The Hammer Museum store, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Power Punch, Giant Robot, New York, NY
2011 Standard Deviation, See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Art London, Bo Lee Gallery, London, UK
2009 East Of Eden, LAMAG, Multi-Gallery Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Fresh StART, Fundraiser Para Los Niños
2009 Everything But The Kitschen Sync, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
BLOG FEATURES
Sp[a]ce Gallery Interview for Forget What You Know on YouTube
Booooooom.com
Supersonic Art
Audio interview The Jealous Curator podcast or itunes
American Illustration 35th ed.
East Bay Express - Invisible Lands
Los Angeles Times
Supersonic
Booooooom
Surface & Surface
The Jealous Curator
Supersonic
My Modern Met
Designboom
PUBLICATIONS
Lampoon Magazine, Italy
Read his Book if you want To make Great Drawings, King Publishing
American Art Collector
New American Paintings
New York Times, “Green Grid”
GQ Magazine
ArtWeek, East of Eden
Los Angeles Times, Beyond Eden
ArtReview, “Testing Ground”
New Angeles Magazine, East of Eden
Drawing Magazine - Noteworthy
San Diego Tribune, “Wistful thinking”
Juxtapoz Magazine, Art & Culture
NYArts Magazine, “Sticking to the story”
Los Angeles Magazine, Best of issue
Los Angeles Times Magazine WEST
Lucky Magazine
TimeOut New York Magazine
CLIENTS / COMMISSIONS
Novo Amor Album Artwork
Collaboration with J Skis
Guthrie Theater
Commission LA METRO
Tia Mowry Cooking Show
Fog Land Wine (ClubW)
Man Appears in the Holocene
The New York Times
L.A. Weekly
Geffen Records
COLLECTIONS
Denali National Park, AK Collection
White River National Forest, CO Collection
MōDUS Moore College of Art & Design Philadelphia Permanent Collection
Four Seasons Hotel Washington D.C.
Four Seasons Hotel Lana’i Koele, Hawaii
The Houston Museum of Contemporary Art
Portland Art Museum
Blum Collection
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