Blue haired and thrift store fashioning himself in the late 90’s, this saxophone-wielding honors student in football pads was performing in Bay Area bars with his brother’s funk metal band at age 15. Later, one of his paintings earned a coveted spot in the gallery window of a prestigious youth exhibition. College found him double-majoring in Studio Art and Philosophy while leading monthly art collective exhibitions and gigging with his brother in a new band all over Hollywood.

Brian’s musical pursuits paralleled his visual art development, opening for hip-hop luminaries like KRS-One, De La Soul, and Ghostface Killah. His early art world reconnesance was informed by summers as an intern at his local Arts Council and the Headlands Center for the Arts near San Francisco.

The 2010s saw Brian navigating the commercial art world—from creating window installations at Urban Outfitters to sweeping floors around Jeff Koons cat sculptures being fabricated for Eli Broad. A Los Angeles based fine art handler, his white-gloved hands delicately cared for artworks by, for example, Picasso, Basquiat, or Kusama, orchestrating their journeys between world-class museums, private collections, or storage. On any given day he could be found retrieving work from artist studios or installing artwork in the private residences of patrons like Jay-Z and Beyoncé. 

A fateful 2014 invitation from one of his yoga students connected Brian with installation artist Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics, initiating him further into large-scale fabrication work with “Fire in Balance” at Burning Man. A portfolio review of this and other works then became the launchpad to an eight-month artist residency and exhibition in Beijing.

While in China, Brian debuted the trampoline-assisted arial painting explorations that would become his signature. The 2015 Beijing Performance Art Festival hosted his innaugual float painting performance, leading to studio visits from curators Klaus Biesenbach and Michael Xufu Huang. This art residency, in partnership with the artist / curator Linyao Kiki Liu, culminated in a 10,000-square-foot exhibition at the Si Shang Art Museum; featuring float paintings, live performance, handwritten journal entries, and video.

After returning to Los Angeles for the birth of his nephew, in 2019 Brian was introduced to Jim Budman and began an artist residency in a corner his legendary Venice Beach warehouse. With a 25-year legacy, Budman Studios has hosted a long list of artists including JR, Yoshitomo Nara, and Takashi Murakami. Staged within Jim’s meta-art funhouse assemblage, and fueled by Jim’s revolving door of guests, Brian’s float painting installation evolved into a local phenomenon—approximately 150 performances, collaborations with brands like Sony and Birkenstock, and sponsored events by June Shine, Liquid Death, and Flying Embers. Simultaniously, his art performances at in the studio saw him providing live visuals for a range of musicians like DJ Zedd and landed him in the middle of a YouTube collaboration with Airrack that garnered over 18 million views.

Since then, his practice has been featured in several short films, including “Brian Floats,” by Sundoc Studios, which toured the film festivals circuit in places like Brooklyn and Newport Beach. The pandemic inspired additional performance projects throughout 2021, including “Artful Distancing” on a bike, “AmbiSynco” with two hands at the same time, and “150count”—a daily digital artwork countdown he began 150 days before the birth of his son. Now a father, Brian’s art practice continues to explore the edges of performance art, painting, mixed media, and digital photography. His art — conceived on military receipts, refined through global travels, and floating between disciplines —remains playfully unrestrained and evolving.