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photo courtesy Brian Biedul
 Brian Biedul has been experimenting with theoretical architecture as an art form for 20 years. After creating installations with walls, vinyl, vegetation, light, and fire, he has turned to oil on canvas for his new Space series. The day after the Santa Monica artist presents an Artist in Action lecture at Palm Springs Art Museum, 10 of his Rectangle paintings will be on exhibition Jan. 12-Feb. 28 at 43@Racquet Club.
“It’s not just a matter of building shelter,” says 43@Racquet Club developer Dennis Cunningham, principal of Palm Springs Modern Homes. “I would like to have the model have meaning other than just wall art to match the couch.”
Expanding on that philosophy, Cunningham foresees placing Biedul’s sculptures in his firm’s future projects. “I feel that artists,
public art especially, needs to be integrated into a community,” he says. The public can view the 43@Racquet Club exhibition between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Thursday through Monday.
The paintings began with a model getting inside Biedul’s box based on the Golden Rectangle first described in 1509 by Luca de Pacioli, a mathematician and collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci.
“To articulate the space in a two-dimensional medium, I needed an image,” Biedul says. “The human form is the ideal choice because the boundaries of the human body are universally understood.”
— Janice Kleinschmidt
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