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KENT ARTIST’S PAINTINGS IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT UNIVERSITY
NATIONAL EXHIBIT:
Accomplished figurative painter and teacher, Scott Bricher of South Kent, Connecticut, will be one of ten American painters exhibiting their works at the “Solemn & Sublime: Contemporary American Figurative Painting” exhibition at Eastern Connecticut University October 21st through December 2, 2010 in Willimantic, Connecticut. Bricher’s two oil paintings, “The Journey Begins” and “Release”, will be exhibited in the Akus Gallery on the university’s campus, with an Opening Reception on November 3rd at 5:30 PM. A panel discussion will precede the opening at 3:00 PM featuring acclaimed international painters Vincent Desiderio, Sidney Goodman and Mel Leipzig, and will be open to the public.
Since the mid-1980’s, Bricher has created artwork for numerous exhibitions, portrait commissions, major corporations, magazines, book publishers and advertising agencies nationwide. He has also taught and demonstrated painting nationally. “My artwork is built from subconscious themes,” explained Bricher. “As images take shape in my imagination, I don’t question their meaning- they are just shapes yet to come into focus. As they appear, I make notes in a sketchbook or journal and if certain images persist, they become my art. Motifs and elements start to attach themselves to each other, and sometimes this accumulation results a single unified picture. Other times, I combine several themes into a ‘multi-pane’ painting.”
Multiple Master
By Kathryn Boughton, September 18, 2009
Genre hopping in Kent, CT.
To paraphrase the Rogers and Hammerstein song from "Oklahoma," artist Scott Bricher is a guy "who can't say no."
"I say 'yes' to whatever comes along," said the Kent, Conn., artist who, for a quarter of a century, has produced a flood of fine art, private commissions, illustrations and design work, as well as working for major corporations, magazines, book publishers and point-of-purchase advertising designers. Along the way, he has taught himself how to work in digital media, including illustration, 3D modeling, Flash animation, Web presentation and graphic design, for clients such as Mad Magazine, PBS, Pitney Bowes, Taunton Press and Crew Design in Kent.