Isaac Brest AMERICAN, b. 1987

Isaac Brest, who received his professional training in film, is best known for works in photography and installation. He is involved in The Still House Group artist organization, which he founded with Alex Perweiler in 2007 in order to foster "creative sustainability" for future generations of artists seeking non-traditional career progressions. Brest's own conceptually based works present wry commentary on contemporary art practice by incorporating elements of architecture and film; he also works frequently with industrial materials like sheet rock, sanding tools, Plexiglas, and plywood.

Born in Los Angeles in 1987, Isaac Brest is an American artist whose work frequently draws on architecture and the built environment. Brest often takes fragments of architectural space and isolates them from their previous surroundings, leaving the question - what happens when something ordinarily overlooked becomes the subject of attention. Theres an ambiguity to Brest's work that makes the viewer question whether they are viewing a painting, a fragment of a building or a record of the process of making. This interest extends into a relationship between observation and memory.