Artist Bio
Bryan Boone is an abstract artist and user experience (UX) designer living and working in Kansas City, Mo. Born in Oklahoma in 1980, Bryan has been captivated by architecture and the landscapes of our built environment from early in life. His work meditates on form and structure, contrasting hard-edge, geometric design with organic layered effects and subtle textures. By varying opacity, gloss, and grain, Bryan creates dimensionality and shifting light and color effects in his paintings.
A common theme in Bryan’s recent work is his creation of a core design system developed for a series of works. He then develops individual pieces as permutations within the system to play out multiple design outcomes and color combinations. A self-taught artist, Boone’s background includes commercial design for print, motion, web, and app design. His body of art includes public, institutional, and corporate art murals and installations including “Wellenform” at Fowler Volkswagen in Norman, “Forward Refraction” in Midtown Oklahoma City, and “Courses” (with Dan Garrett) at the Francis Tuttle Rockwell campus.
Bryan has exhibited solo shows at 1515 Lincoln Gallery, Istvan Gallery, and AKA Gallery in Oklahoma City and participated in group exhibitions at Science Museum Oklahoma, Artspace at Untitled, IAO Gallery, JRB Gallery, and DNA Galleries. He is an active member of the art community and a pre-qualified public artist in his native Oklahoma City. Boone is currently represented by 1515 Lincoln Gallery.
Piece Description
“My work studies structures and connections,” Bryan says. “For my Triple A, I wanted to delve into the technical forms and internal components of the device. The Kimray team graciously provided me with technical drawings and allowed me to study a physical model. To explore such a complex object, I divided the design into three planes. The first focuses on the internal components with a cutaway view, the middle layer is messier and explores facets of the housing, and the final layer of stark red showcases the overall form of the device.”
