Brian Bress
Brian Bress is my art obsession at the moment. I recently saw his show at the LFL gallery in New York, and his collages and photographs were so striking, modern and funny that I couldn’t stop staring at them.
Tagged: installations, New York, New York artists
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Dean said | 4 September, 2007
that’s Brian b_R_ess