Press ::
Artsprojekt Interview
Delicious Drips - First
Place Munny Grubbers
VPEast - Mutations at Black Maria Gallery
Battlegrip - 'Beast Buddies' review
Custom Toy Lab - Appalachia Dunny write-up
ToyCyte - Beast Buddies write-up
ZAF622/Art
Palaver - Video interview
Juxtapoz.com -
Added to Art Whino collection
Juxtapoz.com - World Space Party at Art Whino
Juxtapoz.com
- Reader Art
Target Audience Magazine -
Featured Artist
Literary Fever - Published art
Film ::
The
Darkness Within - 2009 (A print of
"The Third One
In This" is in the film.) Watch the trailer
here.
Personal Info ::
Full Name:: Bryan Allen Collins
Date of Birth:: 19 July, 1975
Place of Birth:: St Petersburg, FL (USA)
Marital Status:: Married to the wonderful Rachel Ann
Parental Status:: Daddy of 2 awesome babies, Elorah and
Isaiah
Favorite Saying:: "Just because you can do something,
doesn't mean you should."
Favorite Food:: Biscuits and Gravy or Sushi
Favorite Bible Verse:: Ecclesiastes 10:10
Hobbies:: Music, Camping, Hiking, Fishing, Reading, Video
Games
In his youth, Bryan Collins valued drawing as a refuge. He regarded art as a way
to unravel the mysteries
floating around his mind. Upon
observing the work of M.C. Escher, Bryan realized the immensely profound
ability for art to communicate with
parts of the mind, otherwise untouchable. He began to study artists such
as Van Gogh, Dr. Suess, Norman
Rockwell, and Dali. In his early
teens he dove deeply into the world of comic books.
In his late teens he was captivated by the imagination of Tim
Burton. Art was everything to Bryan, because it gave
him a voice.
Then, in his early twenties, Bryan took on an apprenticeship at a tattoo shop
and thought he had reached his
dream. However, the tattoo field
proved to be restrictive and itchy for him. There were so many rules that began
to make Bryan's art stiff, rigid, and
lifeless. Everything he drew had to be interpretable as a tattoo. It wasn't
allowing him to experiment with the
pushing out of boundaries, so he left the field. Afterwards, a detour was
taken from art and he chased a career
in music. Bryan joined a band called Jeremiah's Grotto and began touring
from a cramped 15 passenger van to
play his bass guitar around the nation. This endeavor was so consuming that
Bryan slowly drifted away from
drawing and put his entire soul into audio. Circumstances made a sticky mess of
the music and fate prevailed,
bringing Bryan back to his first love of visual manifestations. He ran back to
tattooing
since it was a familiar way for him
to bring home some cash while still getting to draw. After opening his own
tattoo
studio he was quickly reminded of why
he left tattooing in the first place, so he sold the business.
At this point, Bryan and his wife Rachel decided the best thing was for him to
step out in faith and pursue art as
a career. He put together a website
(the one you're on right now!) and began sharing his art with the world. Bryan
now exhibits coast to coast across
the United States. He is a permanent artist at the Art Whino gallery in National
Harbor, MD. Bryan is a resident artist at The Gallery Underground in Fort Collins, CO
where he exhibits 1st and 3rd Fridays.
He has been
featured in multiple magazines such as Flash (81,82,87), Target Audience, and Literary Fever.
Mostly using acrylic paint, Bryan works on panel, canvas, and DIY vinyl figures
such as Kidrobot's Munny and Dunny,
Flying Fortress's Teddy Troops, and
more. He also creates with Prismacolor pencils, usually on cold press
illustration board, and
sometimes works
with scratch board. Bryan's art career is steadily gaining fantastic momentum
as he builds a
collector base worldwide.
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