Lecture: Brian Krueger

 Brian Krueger is not only a performance artistic but digital media artist as well. His current gallery deemed to be quite interesting, loud and very, very pink. It was creative and hard to understand some pieces, but generally fun to look at. Especially the pink. That was super awesome.

Image of the video of himself

    Krueger was an artist unlike many that I have ever seen. During his lecture, he showed a biography type video of himself that Ben had made. I was a little confused as to why it was even created and didn't know why he showed it. But besides that, the lecture was funny and knowledgeable about his type of art.

     The most interesting and meaningful pieces was probably the refrigerator piece. He explained that his brother committed suicide a couple of years back and one of his friends collaborated with him to create this freezer because antifreeze (I could be mistaken) is what his brother used to commit suicide with. They laid the freezer on the ground with a bunch of string looking things that go all the way to the ceiling which I believe represents his brothers spirit. This piece was in the center of the gallery and I felt as though is was the most powerful and had such a great idea behind it. Gave the viewer different feelings about it.

     Another one of his successful pieces was Make Time for Tom which was a series of drawings that were underlying nature of IGT or the other major corporations he has worked for in the past. His paintings were very well done and even after the lecture, an audience member asked why he didnt talk more about his paint work or make it more of a big deal since they were so good. I would have asked the same question because this is a really strong suit of his, besides a few of his performances. Personally, I wish he had showed more art works and explained them in depth.

     Krueger explained during his lecture that frames determine the boundaries for everything. He touched on this subject a little while which pretty much defined his work and how he goes about coming up with his stuff. He said that frames determine also what is allowed in and what remains out. Oddly enough we frame our identity as a sort of brand. This was creative to me because I never thought of frames in this sense. Overall, I had a few issues understanding a lot of his ideas or work, but he tried to explain the best he could with humor and a mix of other interesting aspects. It was a successful show as well as the lecture.