Brent Green – Current Artist in Residence @ GCAC

Brent Green arrived late last week and is getting settled in to our artist in residence apartment and studio. We are working with him to set up a private space within GCAC for a sound recording studio, where he will be developing and recording soundtracks for new works.

Brent is a self-taught artist and filmmaker who lives and works in a barn in Cressona, PA. Known for his poetic works that address complex personal struggles, he will be with us in residence through early December, creating a new multi-channel video installation for solo exhibition in the main gallery. A 2005 recipient of the prestigious Creative Capital grant, he has presented solo exhibitions of his work at such institutions as Berkeley Art Museum, SITE Santa Fe, EMPAC, DiverseWorks, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and Palmer Art Museum at Penn State University. Brent’s film works have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Walker Art Center, Pacific Film Archive, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Wexner Center and Museum of Modern Art in New York, which has his feature Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then as part of their permanent collection.

While he is here, he will conduct outreach programs with California State University Fullerton College of the Arts students, students of Orange County School of the Arts and teens of the Santa Ana community, through animation and stop-motion filmmaking techniques.

Green will also screen his feature film Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, with live performed soundtrack during a one evening program. The live soundtrack will be performed by Brent, with his collaborative partners: Tim Rutili, Tim Hurley (both from Califone), Mike McGinley (Bitter Tears), and artist Donna Kozloskie.

Our original scheduled venue, The Copper Door, had an unfortunate pipe burst which now has them closed for a couple of months for renovations, so we are scrambling to find an ideal venue for the screening. We will keep you posted on the venue and date. We are aiming for a Friday, October 12th, evening performance!

*UPDATE ON VENUE: The event in now scheduled to occur October 12, 7pm @ Orange County School of the Arts, Margaret A. Webb Theatre, 801 N. Main St., Santa Ana, CA.

His end of residency exhibition is schedule to open here at Grand Central Art Center in our main gallery on December 1 and run through February 10, 2013.