About the Artist

Brandon Lee Wallace lives, works, and paints in Virginia. He was born in Farmville, grew up in Hopewell, and now lives in Staunton.

Wallace earned his BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. He earned his MFA in Painting and Drawing from James Madison University in 2009, and remained at JMU to teach classes in 2D design, drawing, figure drawing, and art appreciation/history. Wallace has also taught at Blue Ridge Community College, the American Shakespeare Center, and offers private studio classes.

 

About the Art

What happens if you take the defining facet of an object’s intrinsic visual composition and reconstruct it completely out of that familiar context?

By removing ordinary things from the framework that makes them ordinary, I invite you to look again at what you think you see.

What do you SEE? What are you LOOKING at? State the obvious.
Forget fruitlessly asking pointless questions like “what does it MEAN?” or “what might it REPRESENT?” and simply see what you are looking at.

Are you seeing what is there – or what you think is there?