Watching a Brian Bress video is like going to a one man show, except instead of the show being in a theater, it’s inside the performer’s brain, and instead of a single man on stage, there are a dozen charmingly grotesque characters running and yelling and dancing and muttering sometimes hilarious nonsense with the rapturous cadence of a mentally disturbed genius.
The remnants of bygone dreams make up Bress’ universe. In the prison of unconscious fantasy we’re treated to a visually opulent revue that’s both exhausting and exhilarating. Backdrops, props, character and costume are constantly shuffling, but Bress’ endless colors and shapes are always beautifully boisterous juxtapositions. In his latest video, an epic production entitled Because It’s the Depression, he adopts the following identities: an astronaut, a boxer, a helpless child, a crafty coal miner, a polygonal creep. And golly, is it fun.
Check out that video, along with a new series of paintings and sculptures, at Culver City’s Cherry and Martin through October 24th.
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