Biography - The second of six children, Bryan was born on May 6, 1965 in Cherry Hill, NJ and raised between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Allegheny Highlands. He still holds a place in his heart for those mountains. After high school he found his way into a small private college in Cincinnati, Ohio. After receiving a degree in Commercial Art and Advertising, he moved to Chicago, IL. Bryan contributes most of his earlier work to the stress of the advertising industry. After spending seven years in Chicago, Bryan moved to central Kentucky for five years and continued to work with advertising agencies and follow his art. He translated his images onto T-shirts and cards which where sold at craft fairs and festivals in and around Lexington, KY. At this point in his life Bryan's art began to transform and became the basis of what it is today. He currently resides in Chicago, where he can "gather inspiration from a overflowing well of reference". "I do not feel I am an artist by choice. I have an idea or a feeling and I begin to draw, interpreting what I am experiencing onto paper. Lines with notation of color and medium is how it starts; perceptions of a moment in the forms of faces and figures is usually how it ends. I attempt to capture instances with as much intensity as I experience them. Recreating the idea into a still form, a moment."