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Brian
Rego received a Bachelors of Fine Art at the University
of South Carolina with a concentration in oil painting in
2004. He displayed his work in the Solo Senior Exhibit
in the McMaster School of Fine Art Gallery in 2004. He is the
recipient of the Ed Yaghjian Award from the University of
South Carolina for distinguished undergraduate work.
In 2007, Brian Rego received a Masters of Fine Art at
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA,
and displayed his work in the 2007 Annual Student Exhibition
in the Academy’s Hamilton Museum.
Rego has participated in group and solo exhibitions and
has shown his work in Australia, New York, Philadelphia,
Vermont, Greenville, and Columbia. Brian currently teaches oil
painting and drawing classes at City Art and at the University
of South Carolina.
Artist's
Statement
"I
paint my subject from life and consider it to be a great joy
and an immense struggle.
I hope to capture the feeling of these synonymous
realities in my paintings.
For me, the purpose of painting is to tap into
something that is profoundly human, something sensual that
lies on the fringe of memory, a reality both strange and
familiar.
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