Brian Khek
Brian Khek is a young digital artist from Chicago, who, if his website’s links are any indication, seems to run in the same circles as some of my favorite denizens of that windy, windy city–Brad Troemel, Micah Schippah, and Carson Fisk-Vittori. They’re all graduates of SAIC–the new RISD? Discuss. What kind of crazy cyber-drugs are they putting in the water up there? Khek’s pieces rise to the surface from deep chambers of the virtual world’s collective unconscious, blithely challenging the ancient eminence of all things organic. Primo.
When did amateur Maya and Photoshop knowledge, Macbook obsession, and tween blogging become an aesthetic? This is some of the most arrogant art I’ve seen in the past 40 years. The ignorance to craftsmanship is ludicrous. I guess one needs to have an incestuous circle of people or “tastemakers” to get noticed and have this be considered art. Otherwise, every Tumblr and Blogspot user would be defined as artists. I’m over it.
I could see how looking at art for 40 years and then trying to grasp the aesthetic of 20-year-olds who grew up glued to personal computers might be kind of difficult and frustrating, sure. No need to be bitter about it, though!
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we are creating the atheistic… and Brian Khek has great craftsmanship i saw this macbook, that i think he made on the laser pointer out of wood and it was perfect.
“In all the arts there is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power”… “We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art,” Valery, 1964.
Brian Khek is a talented artist taking an experimental approach to more commercial programs, such as Maya and Photoshop. Brian is responding to banal, everyday objects and actions; he is exploring the multiple levels of emotion that these objects and actions have the potential to emit. I am excited to see how Khek’s work will progress.