Brian Dick
Visiting Teaching Faculty
Department of Art
Brian Dick’s research focuses on the notion of play as a performance strategy. His work is time-based improvisational sculpture that extends into social space. All is purposefully temporary and not meant to last over time. However, recently he has been making dolls which are meant to last over time. He received his MFA from U.C. San Diego and his BA from UCLA.
He is co‐founder of The Nationwide Museum Mascot Project. Which has presented at over forty art venues including
The Fowler at UCLA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Peru; and Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Columbia.
He has twice Reinvented Allan Kaprow’s seminal installation “Yard” for the New Children’s Museum, San Diego.
He was the Robert Caplan Artist‐in-Residence at Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and the Artist-In-Residence at the American Center, Paris France.
He was the SOVA Director designated Artist-In-Residence at Penn State University where he taught Foundations and was also the Penn State Edwin C. Zoller Gallery Director.
In addition to teaching, he was the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley School of Art and Design Gallery Director under Covid, where he oversaw the implementation of virtual exhibitions on social media platforms, and the Gallery’s website which included over fifteen virtual talks from nationally and internationally known artists and scholars.
He is a husband, and a father of two little boys. In his free time, he collects Comic Books, thrift store shops, and loves going to the movies. His favorite thing is having coffee with friends.