Brian Block’s art practice explores relationships between language and cognitive perception.
Block’s art works and research often engage the ideology, language, and reality production methods of chosen “perceptual authorities” often locating his work in the interplay between the somewhat fictive reality production of ideology and the fictive realm of art.
Drawing upon his education in literature Block often involves literary methods into this art practice including repurposing “found” texts, conducting original research, and deploying pseudonyms.
A brief 2022 interview can be read here.
Block is NYC based. He obtained a BA in English Literature before an MFA at the School of Visual Arts where he studied closely with Mel Bochner and Sarah Charlesworth. He completed the Whitney Independent Study Program.