BRIAnna Bass

ABOUT

Brianna Bass’s compositions are a visual dance, a dynamic interplay of gradient colors and numerical formulas that blend color theory, geometry, and mathematical patterns to create illusions of depth and spatial expansion. While exploring the optical limits of color interaction, she forges a connection to linguistic realms, bending bold primaries into uncharted territory that both asserts and disrupts legibility. Bass codes colors as numerical units, designing constantly evolving visual games that invite viewers to hover at the boundary between art and science, showcasing the sublime complexity of natural patterns. In contrast to the flatness common in geometric painting, she relies on shadows, warbling edges, and visual noise to interrupt and expand perception, creating an environment where the observer can forge a synesthetic experience.

Brianna Bass ( B. 1990) earned her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2022, and BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2013. She has presented in lectures with Missouri State University, Pratt Institute, and Yale University. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (NY), Latchkey Gallery (NY), The Green Family Foundation (TX), Noh-Art in Naples, Italy, and Tree Art Museum in Beijing, China. Private and public collections include, Morgan Stanley Art Collection and The Green Family Collection.

 

WORKS

Untitled (Dark Center Glow) , 2024
Oil on Canvas
42 x 42 in. | 106.68 x 106.68 cm


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A painting is an utterance: an effort to communicate, released in a swarm of particles. Somewhere in the air, they organize, sort and join one aspect to another, shaping individual colors and marks into legible molecules, into images.

Like letters or numbers, colors are basic building blocks. They are points of location on a limitless shape which shifts continually. My paintings begin with hand-plotted graphs and internal algorithms. Numbers are assigned to shifting geometries in the color wheel in an attempt to examine the canons of color, while bringing form to invisible numerical patterns.

Color mapping is a metaphor for the way language simultaneously limits and illuminates. Optical phenomena like simultaneous contrast and agitating geometric shapes untether our trust in our senses. Texture and brushwork act as noise, a crackle over an air wave. A shadow is a murmur, a lapse of understanding that is not a loss, but an active, alchemical space.

- Brianna Bass

Untitled (Orange & Blue Checkered Phase), 2024
Acrylic on canvas
8 x 10 in. | 20.32 x 25.40 cm

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Untitled (October Aurora 2) , 2024
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. | 50.80 x 40.64 cm

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Untitled (October Aurora 1) , 2024
Oil on Canvas over Panel
28 x 20 in. | 71.12 x 50.80 cm

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Probability Field , 2024
Oil on canvas
40 x 40 x 1½ in. | 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.81 cm

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Untitled (Double Ellipse) , 2024
Oil on Canvas over Panel
60 x 42 in. | 152.40 x 106.68 cm

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