Brian Bishop

Brian Bishop is a visual artist and researcher. His studio practice primarily explores the process wherein the photographic image remediated through the discursive and lyrical filter of painting exposes latent meaning. His work interrogates the processes of translation between forms and how those conceptual and physical acts hold and shape meaning. Whether through the production of image-objects or writing projects he is interested in the precarious state of the image in this post-photographic era when our world is increasingly populated by non-human generated images. His current research questions the teleological role of the image in the current rise of generative AI and surveillance capitalism and queries the material currency of the image. All the various manifestations of his research grapple with these questions and leverage the significant role the hand-rendered image holds in our mental and physical understanding of our world.