Brian Mains


	Created over a period of seven years, Purification and Renewal is a continuation of the artist's extensive exploration into the human condition and desire for transcendence. Faces of the figures are obscured, allowing them to become universal human forms. The light source is a spiritual dimension, at times a divine glow and others a burning, consuming inferno. Compositionally, the work is often symmetrical, containing circular geometric elements. These circular aspects suggest everything from mysterious portals, to the Buddhist wheel of life, to the bondage of this mortal coil and pull the viewer in with an almost dreamlike sensation of vertigo.

Lamentation Triptych , 2000-2007 acrylic on canvas 66 x 150”


	Consumption, 2003 acrylic on canvas 48 x 66”	The Window of Seven Tears , 2004 acrylic on canvas 48 x 60 ”


	Cleansing the Invisible Man, 2004 acrylic on canvas 66 x 48”	The Fall, or The Time It Takes burning Bodies to Light , 2004 acrylic on canvas 78 x 48”


	Light of the Dead , 2002 acrylic on canvas 66 x 48 ”	Music of Life , 2000/2006 acrylic on canvas 66 x 66”


	Inviolate, 2005 silverpoint on prepared paper 16 x 13” 21 x 17” framed	Within a Sphere, 2006 pastel, pencil on paper 13 x 13””


	Mappa Mundi , 1997 pastel, pencil on paper 16 x 13” 21 x 17” framed	Light of the Dead, 2000 pastel, pencil on paper 16 x 13” 21 x 17” framed


	The Dying Son, 2007 graphite on paper 13 x 16 ” 17 x 21” framed	Cl;eansing the Invisible Man , 2004 watercolor and white pencil on paper 16 x 13” 21 x 17” framed


	The Cloud , 1995 pastel, pencil on paper 16 x 13 ” 21 x 17” framed	Misericordia, 2001 pastel, pencil on paper 16 x 13” 21 x 17” framed


	Bound Figure, 1996 pastel, pencil on paper 13 x 16 ” 17 x 21” framed	Inviolate, 2005 silverpoint on prepared paper 16 x 13” 21 x 17” framed

	Biography
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