Brett's art explores the creation of photographic imagery. His style (call it "product branding"?) is to reject style as did Man Ray and to continue to search within artistic media for means of expression. He began by studying classical painting and drawing. By his 20's, he was also using a camera to communicate his ideas. As computers flooded us with images, he hand printed negatives to move between the analog camera, the computer, and the printed image. His negatives, sometimes more than 4 square feet in size, will print cyanotype and silver-albumin images-- the largest ever created. Now he uses computer based digital mathematics to create photomurals with dozens or hundreds of fused 35mm size single images. These are printed or painted following rules of Totemic magic.

For Brett, the visual pleasure of photography also opens doors to the relationship between the subject, the artist, and the viewer, and the question of which is which. To Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, and the philosophers who say that a photograph kills its subject, and to the religious zealots who believe that nudity and eroticism degrades, Brett says, "look again." He is indebted to the legacy of Titian's eye (and probable use of the camera lucida), to Giotto's and Caravaggio's vision of the body, to Monet's and Corot's color. He is indebted to artists like Westin, Cartier Bresson, and Ansell Adams whose images went far beyond freezing the reality of the moment. Brett believes that vision is controlled by what we think just as the sense of taste is informed by the sense of smell. No 2 people see the same thing at the same time. So how are each of us excited when we see?

Each month, the exhibit in at least one of the galleries will change. Hopefully you will enjoy becoming acquainted with Brett's work, will buy some of it, or share in its creation by being photographed.

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