Brian Gillis is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines intersections of history and related social outcomes. He is particularly interested in working with content that may have fallen on deaf ears, been buried over time, or obscured by something else. Gillis has exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, CUE Art Foundation, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, and Heilongjiang University in China. He is an associate professor of art at the University of Oregon.
Disciplines:
Visual Arts – mixed media
Brian Gillis
Studios
Alexander
Brian Gillis worked in the Alexander studio.
Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…