Envoy Enterprises presents a pop-up studio and performance by Brandon Hermann, hosted by the CSV Center at 107 Suffolk Street.

Brandon Herman is an LA-based artist working in photography, painting, sculpture, video, and performance. His creative process involves diligently staged events, often preceded by months of research on a topic of interest, and then scripted and executed with a cast of chosen performers.

His conceptual focus is the psychology surrounding relationships between memory, fantasy, and mainstream media within the human psyche. The resulting work is a representation of what he would consider our true vision: one that is constantly colored with the fantasies our movies create, nurture and perpetuate. Role-playing, false identities, fame, media sensations, privacy, solitude, and American suburban life are recurring themes in Herman’s work, which ranges in aesthetic references from Renaissance painting to paparazzi photography, as if to point out that our image-saturated eyes have downloaded a comprehensive new visual language. Allusions to high production mass media are combined with more base, lo-fi imagery, often reminiscent of youtube and other self-produced internet content, creating a sort of netherworld between the gloss of consumer culture and the grit of human desire.

Herman graduated with a BFA in Photography and Film from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. His work has been shown internationally, including in a recent project with Musac Contemporary Art Museum in Leon, Spain. He has been featured in such publications as Anthem, Artforum, Dazed & Confused, Eyemazing, Flaunt, Nylon, Soma, Tokion, V, and Vice. He lives and works in Los Angeles.