BRIAN HUBBLE

Contents

Biography

Illustration Process

The Second to Last Resort

Dual Compromise

William Williams: lunamission

"My" Bike for President

Reject Illustration

Minute

Solo and Group Exhibitions

Publications

Awards

Notes and References

External links

Biography

'Brian Hubble' (born 1978 in Virginia) is an American painter, illustrator and practitioner of anti-art happenings. He is best known for his Outsider Art approach with dark collage illustrations for such
publications as the ''New York Times'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''M.I.T. Technology Review'' and ''Psychology Today''. In 2004, he collaborated with Yoko Ono through ''The Stranger'', author of ''Under the Tuscan Sun'' Francis Mayes through ''Atlanta Magazine'', and legendary rock band Guided By Voices through ''Cincinnati Citybeat''. He has also taken part in many group shows in the United States and abroad. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Hubble attended the Illustration Academy in the summer of 2002. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth
University in 2001. In 1999, he studied painting at Edge Hill University in Liverpool, England after attending college at
Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia for studies in Latin and Biology.
In 2005, Hubble was interviewed in Print (magazine) for being one of 20 top international artists under 30 years old. He is also an annually visiting
lecturer at the Illustration Academy in Sarasota, Florida.
Brian Hubble's paintings, drawings, photographs, video, and interactive experience blurs the line between reality and imagination, with a reminder to be wary of a culture constantly barraged with information. His work reflects satirical commentary on topics that have become a part of our society’s routine digestion. Subjects such as internet consumption, the media, politics, substandard healthcare, and social class prejudices are spared no lenience. Through allegorical approach, the artist perplexes, amuses, and provokes. The viewer must decide when truth is negotiated, and what underlying message is ultimately voiced.
Many of his photo-collage illustrations deal with social injustice and human psychology. He has been called upon to visually explain topics from why different cultures hate one another (''Yale University Alumni Magazine'') to everyday life for children in third world countries (''Johns Hopkins University'').

Illustration Process

The physical process of Brian Hubble's illustrative work consists of a multi-stepped and repeated process. He begins by taking several photographs of the subject matter at hand. After photographing is complete, the artist performs a process of elimination, choosing the strongest 2 to 5 images for the illustration. He then begins to manipulate the photographs by means of screen-printing, photo-transferring, scratching and melting. Much of these results are then adhered to glass. This act allows him to draw and paint on, around, behind and on top of the image via the glass and come closer to a final outcome. He sometimes pushes and pulls the images digitally to start forming a composition. This result is printed. He then begins to draw, scratch, paint, cut, rip apart and tape the printed image before re-scanning. This process is repeated starting from the beginning until the illustration is complete.

The Second to Last Resort

Dual Compromise

Ten years after working as an auto-parts delivery driver in Bible Belt secured Virginia, Hubble was inspired to create ''Dual Compromise'' (2006), which depicts a pick-up truck posed alongside an image of itself just before giving its own battery a jumpstart. A desolate cityscape towers over the pair as they convene at a precarious intersection. The axiom “Southern Baptist” is boldly painted underneath cartoonishly rendered jumper cables. Hubble produced this piece hoping that it might sell to one of the mechanics he once delivered to, for any price they deemed appropriate.
''Dual Compromise Video'' (2007) is a documented disapproval of the painting by these educated and versed mechanics. It is immediately disregarded as a fundamentally failed attempt at presenting messages they feel artistic expression should convey. By revealing biting one-liners and sharp, sometimes humorous observation from this social class, the artist forces a reconsideration of hierarchical distinctions between individuals or groups in the currently defined condition of state.

William Williams: lunamission

In 1998, Hubble met a man named William Williams while stuck in a small town in North Carolina due to car trouble. Williams befriended the out-of-place artist, and the two kept in contact over the years. Hubble recently agreed to help Williams with his Myspace page. It (amongst other notable images) contains several works of art William has displayed in hopes to strengthen an application he submitted to the I.S.A. (Italian Space Association) for an opportunity to take a journey to the moon. According to William, seven lucky international citizens will be chosen later this summer for a once in a lifetime experience advertised only in Italy. Friends' comments act as a source of reference to hopefully put his application head and shoulders above the other American applicants. The artist is his greatest supporter.

"My" Bike for President

In the winter of 2006, Hubble discovered a man named D.B. Wood, Jr. who ran an exploratory committee to have his bike, a black Zebrakenko 10-speed from Tokyo, Japan, run for the Presidency of the United States in 1988. With a slogan stating, “If it Ain’t Metal, it Ain’t Music!” Wood's bike quickly gained much popularity in many parts of the northeast. The works in ''"My" Bike for President'' (2007) are the only remaining records (most of which were confiscated by police during a rally in Brooklyn, New York) produced by some known and many unknown supporters. The cornerstone of the bike’s platform was to have fluorides added to the public’s water supply. It felt that reducing the ongoing tooth decay epidemic in this country should be confronted immediately. Also on the agenda was adding national bingo night and promoting better sex education in public schools.
Unfortunately, the Presidential House Committee disqualified the bike for having been born outside the United States. An appeal was never fully realized.

Reject Illustration

In April of 2006, Hubble was commissioned to create an illustration for ''St. Louis Magazine'' to accompany an article on the unfortunate corporate takeover of the Pulitzers’ Post-Dispatch. ''Reject Illustration'' (2006) consists of five revenue-driven goals this corporation desired to implement, listed in black on a white background and placed between sections of the article as it appeared in the publication. After the piece was quickly dismissed by the art director and editors as not sellable or illustrative, the artist tersely signed the bottom “ Brian Hubble Illustration-rejected illustration for St. Louis Magazine.” He then contacted the magazine’s printer and explained that a mistake had been made and to replace the later approved piece with his original intent. This wile was a tongue-in-cheek reaction to the kind of imagery our media thinks must be fed to the public. Furtherover, the actual articles attempt at negating some of these types of behaviors only heightened the satire.

Minute

''One Long Nite in Switzerland and the Second to Last Resort'' was originally a storyboard documenting a small bird’s (''Minute'') account of a child's nightmare. In the dream, a family of four were brutally murdered and eaten by three monsters while on holiday deep in the Swiss Alps. The storyboard was later developed into six paintings which were the proto-type for a children's book. Hubble later played two major book publishers against one another by drumming up fake interest in the story, which resulted in a fierce bidding war.

Solo and Group Exhibitions

2007 ''One Long Nite in Switzerland'', Wonk Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; 2005 ''Brooklyn'', Westport Arts Center, Bridgeport, Connecticut; ''New Works'', Amy Simon Gallery, Bridgeport, Connecticut; Brooklyn Underground Film Festival; 2004 ''Confluence'', Open Ground Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; ''New Works'', Madarts Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; 2002 ''Calendar Works'', Starch Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; 1999 ''Katherine Fletcher'', Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, England

Publications

''Punchline Magazine'', ''Technology Review'', ''Wisconsin Review'', ''Baltimore Magazine'', ''U.S. Banker'', Pulp Factory, ''America Magazine'', ''Tikkun'', ''Psychology Today'', ''The Deal'', ''Girlfriends Magazine'', ''Va Journal of Education'', ''Chesapeake Bay Magazine'', ''Pennsylvania Bar Association'', ''Inside Magazine'', Dovecote Records, ''The American Lawyer'', ''11211'', ''New York Press'', ''VPS Magazine'', ''The American Prospect'', ''Gotham'', ''Westport Magazine'', ''Johns Hopkins Magazine'', ''The Stranger'', ''Minnesota Magazine'', ''Government Executive'', ''ABA Journal'', ''Boomer Market Advisor'', ''Beautiful Decay'', ''Atlanta Magazine'', ''Yale Alumni Magazine'', ''AOPA Pilot'', ''Benefits Selling'', ''New York Times'', ''SMA Magazine'', ''New Hampshire Magazine'', ''Cincinnati Citybeat'', ''Inc.'', ''National Law Journal'', ''B & C Aviation'', ''Hemispheres'', ''Baseline'', Attenex, ''Harper’s Magazine'', ''Common Ground'', ''Out Magazine'', ''Healthcare Informatics'', ''Avenue'' (with article on artist), ''Staffing Management'', ''Improper Bostonian'' (with article on artist), ''Northshore Magazine'', Point 5 Design, ''Genre'', ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', ''Nylon'', ''IEEE Spectrum'', ''Up! Magazine'', (with article on artist), ''PC Magazine'', ''Notre Dame'', ''Foreign Policy'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Utne Reader'', ''Multifamily Executive'', ''Boston College Law Magazine'', ''American School Board Journal'', ''Regional Economist'', ''San Francisico Chronicle Magazine'', ''Columbia Journal Review'', ''Hampton Roads Sourcebook'' (with article on artist), ''Chief Executive'', ''Developer'', ''New York University (NYU) School of Law'', ''Duke University'', ''Sierra Club'', ''Golf World'', ''5280 Magazine'', ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'', ''Momentum Magazine'', ''Chicago Magazine''

Awards

2006 Addy Award; 2002 The Illustration Academy Scholarship; 2001-1999 The Commonwealth Award

Notes and References

Bio at the ispot
Medium information at Workbook
Selected by American Illustration
Brian Hubble Group Show (first 3 images)
The Illustration Academy lecture week
Biography information on zoominfo
Official website
neoimages
Myartspace
exhibit information on wooloo
Saatchi Gallery
''Confluence'' press release
Westport Arts Center article
The Illustration Academy

External links

★ Myartspace interview

★ Bible-The Atlantic Monthly

★ Folioplanet

★ www.myspace/lunamission

★ blog

★ Westport Arts Center

★ The Great Thirst article

★ San Francisco Chronicle images

★ Disappearing Act in ''MultiFamily Executive''

★ Cover illustration for ''The American Prospect''

★ Darien vs. I-95 in ''Westport Magazine''

★ Classical, Jazz, Avant in ''The Stranger''

★ Public Health: Lead paint studies: Finding the problem, then fixing it

★ Bio info from Johns Hopkins

★ Yoko Ono article in ''The Stranger''

★ Guided By Voices breaks apart

★ National Law Journal article

★ The Swarm article in ''Harper's Magazine''

★ Seattle's Hottest New Hood

★ The Score

★ Rules Were Made-The 9/11 Report is Scarier Than You Think

★ Better Than the Real Thing

★ Bad Noise

★ The Score 2

★ The Score 3

★ Classical, Jazz & Avant Plays Seascapes

★ article in ''Baseline''

★ A Look at Where Richmond Began