Starsky Brines
Bio
Starsky Brines (Caracas, 1977). Bachelor of Fine Arts with a specialization in Painting (Armando Reverón University Institute of Higher Studies in Fine Arts), Advanced Diploma in Western Art History (Arturo Uslar Pietri Center for Latin American Studies, Metropolitan University). His work has been widely exhibited in Venezuela and internationally: Korean International Art Fair (KIAF), Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Seoul; Stranger than Banana, Zandari Gallery, Seoul; Miedo ≠ Fear, LP Gallery, New York; Vision of Contemporary Venezuelan Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; No Happy Ends, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid; Parcelita de Poder, El Museo Gallery, Bogotá. His most recent solo exhibitions include: The Role of Drawing, GBG ARTS®, Caracas, and Zato's Objects, ARS Publicidad, Caracas. She has received several awards, including the Young Artist Mention Award from the Venezuelan Association of Visual Artists, Caracas (2010), and the Omar Carreño Young Artist Award from the Venezuelan College of Architects, Caracas (2013). Her artwork has been featured in important documentaries and publications, such as *Art in Venezuela 1980-2005*, by Juan Carlos Palenzuela (2014). She currently lives and works in Orlando, Florida.
Recent exhibitions
-Special Exhibition “Insight of Painting” Koo House Museum
Seoul, South Korea
2023/2024
-Special Exhibition “Energy flow” Sindoh Cultural Space
Seoul, South Korea
2023
-Solo show “Back and Forth, Coming from behind”
New Orleans, USA
2023
-Solo show “VANISHING/ rendezvous with the animal” Miami Beach, USA
2023
-Solo show “Starsky Brines I Hendrik
-Zimmer In Dialogue.” Madrid, Spain
2022
-Solo show “Starsky Brines I Hendrik Zimmer In Dialogue.”
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2022
-Solo show “Centro de Shanghai” Shanghai, China
2022
-Solo show “VICE-VERSA”
-Estampa. Feria de arte
contemporáneo. Madrid, Spain 2021
-Solo show “Outside of myself / Fuera de mi mismo”
New Orleans, USA
2021
-Solo show “Entre una cosa y la otra” Palm Beach, Florida
2019
-Solo Show “The Circus of Beauty” Seoul, Korea
2018
-Solo Show “Paraiso Perdido” Frankfurt, Germany
2018
Statement
“My painting doesn’t represent: it leads. The hybrid bodies that emerge—imperfect, intense, contradictory—embodi the tension of existence.
Within that tension appears an involuntary, almost biological humor, an irony that destabilizes and reveals the humanity we try to hide.
The work is a pulse, an energy that transforms matter and simultaneously exposes us. I paint that instant where the mask shatters and the essential bursts forth, reminding us how fragile the fiction of being someone truly is.”
Additional information
“My painting doesn’t represent: it leads. The hybrid bodies that emerge—imperfect, intense, contradictory—embodi the tension of existence.
Within that tension appears an involuntary, almost biological humor, an irony that destabilizes and reveals the humanity we try to hide.
The work is a pulse, an energy that transforms matter and simultaneously exposes us. I paint that instant where the mask shatters and the essential bursts forth, reminding us how fragile the fiction of being someone truly is.”
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
