Bio

Brion Goldsmith, is a self-taught artist who has developed his expressionist style through a natural intuition for application techniques. He began experimenting with oils at the age of sixteen and immediately sought inspiration from post-war abstract expressionist artist, such as Willem de Kooning, Chaim Soutine, and Canada’s Jack Bush. In his early work, Brion primarily deals with the subject of human form, bringing to the canvas mysterious and often haunting images of the human condition. Brion’s passion and confidence with his medium and subject are evident in the way that the colours of his work effortlessly blend together, creating soft, yet brilliant shades of blue, brown, and red.

Brion’s recent work demonstrates his ongoing commitment to artistic vision and exploration in style. His concentration is increasingly focused on perfecting the application techniques that give many of his new paintings the simplistic appearance of abstract expressionism. Relinquishing the harmonious brushwork and figurative shapes of his early work, he now works with thick colourful paint that is forced together with harsh, jagged lines. Brion’s canvases radiate with yellows, greens, and reds that spill out over discontinuous black outlines. Grotesque forms and distorted shapes emerge from Brion’s larger-than-life-canvases, dwarfing viewers in hyper- representations of the human psyche.

Chatham’sThames Art Gallery held Brion’s first solo exhibition in 1996, and in 1999, a donation of Brion’s works was added to the acquisitions of the gallery. Since 2000, Brion has participated in numerous London area exhibits and art festivals. His most recent works can be viewed at the newly established Brion Goldsmith Studio Gallery, London, Ontario.

Curriculum Vitae

• 2005, Selected as one of only 18 from across the country to appear in the Thames Art Gallery juried exhibition.
• 2001, Open Air, London, on drawings exhibited in London Region Art History Museum
• 2001, Ongoing exhibition, Brion Goldsmith Studio Gallery, London, Ontario
• 1999, Acquisition donation request by the Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario
• 1998, June Fine Art show and Sale, group exhibition, Thames Art Gallery
• 1996, solo exhibition at the Thames Art Gallery
• 1995 Participant in the Tribute; 100 years of Chatham At and Artists
• 1994-1995, exhibition of new work, Second Story Art Gallery, Chatham
• 1990-1997 Participated in the “Eye for Art” juried annual art exhibition