Brent Showalter

I am a multidisciplinary artist whose creations have their bones in photography, bones that may not be noticeable from afar but a closer examination of the work will bring to life a collection of unique shapes and color, layered in ways that ask viewers to choose which color, shape, idea or language ascends to the top. I found my initial medium almost by accident in broken panes of glass. Where others might have seen chaos or destruction, I—even in the stillness of the broken glass—saw movement stuck in a moment. Whether inspired by the bells of London, the jagged digital clutter of a cracked TV screen or the surface of a river in moonlight, my work has a flowing nature but that flow is fixed, a precise wink at the very notion that movement always moves.

My formal education is from Columbia College Chicago with concentrations in Photography and Fine Arts. My informal training is through constant experimentation and travel which have helped me to create a language for making what is real to me real to others.