Brian Higbee was born and raised in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, a small jazz town at the edge of the Delaware River and a stop over for hikers passing through on the Appalachian Trail. He began painting at a young age and continues his practice in the Hudson Valley. He has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and is the recipient of 2 grants from the Puffin Foundation. He lives and works in Highland, NY.
StatementI make small, quiet oil paintings. My most recent series, Future Perfect, address the impending doom of climate change. The series includes paintings of extreme storms, flooding, droughts, fire and pipeline explosions. My previous series, Western State Terrorism, highlight the devastating impact of war by the US military and coalition forces in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Palestine. The paintings include bombings, remote drone warfare, tactical strafing, torture, and overt destruction of civilian infrastructure
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Exhibitions, Awards and Residency's
2023 Small Works by Strangers, Super Secret Projects, Beacon, NY
Global Meltdown, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
Timeless, AMH Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
106th Annual Juried Exhibition, Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT
2022 small WORKS, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
2021 Hudson Valley Imprints, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2018 Forget Me Not, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Alchemy, AS/Artists Studios, Artsy, NY, NY
2014 Pixelated, Here Art, NY, NY
Future Perfect, Way Out Gallery, Rensslaerville, NY
Conversations: Space&Time, GalleryEll, London, EN
Structures, Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ
Zines and the World of ABC No Rio, Center for Book Arts, NY
2013 Illuminators, OK Harris Works of Art, NY, NY
Ghost Modernism, Quartair, Den Haag, NL
Bose Pacia, Brooklyn, NY- Residency
Our Ocean is a Park, v.3, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Our Ocean is a Park, v.2, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
Ad Libitum, ABC No Rio, NY, NY
2011 32 Below, St. Cecilia's Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Our Ocean is a Park, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
Toys, Studio Theater Gallery, Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ
Refuge Reading Room Exhibit, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Forward, Here, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Texas Firehouse Season Open 2010, Texas Firehouse, Long Island City, NY
No Assumption, 1235 Monroe St, NE, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Summer Salon, LaViolaBank Gallery, NY, NY
DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Submission, ABC No Rio, NY, NY
2008 Emergence, Governor’s Island, NY, NY
Fowler Dune Shack, Cape Cod, MA- Residency
Collaborative Concepts 2008 at Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY
Ides of March, ABC No Rio, NY, NY
2007 Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Greensboro, NC- Residency
Mash Up, Tastes Like Chicken, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Epicenter City, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Armed, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, NY
American Seven, Works, San Jose, CA
The War Show: Invasion, Art of This, Minneapolis, MN
Seen Through Glass: Conflux ’06, Glowlab, Brooklyn, NY
2005 The Puffin Foundation Grant, Puffin Foundation Ltd., Teaneck, NJ
Sub-Version, P.S. 122, NY, NY
Pavillion of the American Resistance, Buzzer 30, NY, NY
Anti-Star, ABC No Rio, NY, NY
3 Cities Against the Wall, Sixth Street Com. Center, NY, NY; Beit Ha’omanim, Tel
Aviv, Israel; Al-Hallaj, Ramallah, Palestine
2004 AmBush!, Van Brunt Gallery, NY, NY
The Luggage Project, Denver Airport, Denver, CO
The Founding Fathers, ABC No Rio, NY, NY
The Ides of March, ABC No Rio, NY, NY
The Clothesline Show, ABC No Rio Benefit, ABC No Rio, NY, NY
2003 Critical Consumption, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Proposals 2003, The Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Airport 03’, HereArt, NY, NY
Disaster, ABC No Rio, NY, NY
COPS, ABC No Rio, NY, NY
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