Time to Be Happy | Bryan Brinkman
Bryan Brinkman is an award-winning multi-media artist who utilizes his career in animation and motion graphics to create fun and inventive ways to convey ideas about creative processes and the NFT space that are both approachable and appealing. His Artwork can be seen on SuperRare, NiftyGateway, Async, ArtBlocks, and more.
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What inspired you to become an artist? My earliest inspiration was a personal computer with early animation software on it. Programs like 3D Movie Maker opened by eyes to using tools for storytelling. Alongside flip- books that showed me how frame by frame animation worked, I slowly started to learn how to create digital content.
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What was the first artwork you sold? The first piece of art I sold was made for a group show in art school, it was a stick figure in his underwear scratching his head, and the president of the University Of The Arts came to the show with his wife, and when she saw it, she was like "how much". That was the start of me realizing there was a market for my weird art.
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What was the most meaningful piece you created? My genesis SuperRare piece "Explode" means a lot to me because it signified a transition in my career and style, it was me setting up a blueprint for how I would make art for years to come.
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Share your experience creating the Clock. I wanted to tell my story as an artist through the panels on the physical clock. I treated each box like an animated storyboard to represent my career in animation.
You can see references to my art, the states I’ve lived in, the television shows I’ve worked on - it tells the story of my career over time.
You can also see references to NIFTY Gateway, and how I transitioned into digital. I've built my own story into the clock.
I love the combination of physical device and imagery that tie together to talk about this life journey of work we can all relate to.
This is the first big, physical piece I've made.
Clock includes this NFT and 90 minutes of visual video art featuring 50 artists captured by Benzi.