Art: Las Vegas Weekly, Kristen Peterson, May 1, 2013 Assembling an exhibit of 20 artists of varying backgrounds, media and style can be challenging enough, but having the artists collaborate with others on multiple pieces suggests an exhausting nightmare with shoddy results. But Exquisite Corpse, opening May 2 at the Contemporary Arts Center, isn’t your […]

Neon – Arts – Culture Las Vegas Review Journal By Sonya Padgett The exhibit kicks off the center’s 25th year celebration. Each piece will be sold for $500, with proceeds benefiting the CAC. The idea came from Michele Quinn, co-president of the museum, which is dedicated to promoting modern and contemporary art. CAC has long […]

Artist Brian Swanson creates donation heart, painted sculpture as a follow up to his larger “Cellular Devotion” piece from the 2011 St. Jude’s “Affair of the Art”. This was a donational piece offered up in an auction setting. This newer heart being from a scaled-down size that is approximately 18″ wide and painted with metallic […]

Cellular Devotion Illustrator Brian Swanson Press Conference at GES, Las Vegas. Painting a Heart: “An Affair of the Heart” St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by Las Vegas illustrator Brian Swanson Painted on large fiberglass sculpture using Brian’s Primitive plankton style blue field with small white ‘healthy cells’ scattered about the heart. Chosen artists were delivered […]