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Bryan Ida
Bryan Ida (born March 1963, Palo Alto, United States) is a painter living and working in Los Angeles. He has shown extensively in Europe, the United States and in Asia. He is well known in New York and Los Angeles at the George Billis Galley and in Taiwan at Blue rider Art. His work portraits delicate spatial relationships of light and color. He also achieves these through a hard-working long process of layering transparent pigment, a mixture of Acrylic paint acrylic paint and polyurethane, on wood panels and then sanding and painting them over again. The layers are a very visible history of the choices he has made and suggestive of the experiences of the artists life, experiences that inform the nuances within his work and a way for him to express and show himself.

Early Life and Education
Bryan Ida was born in March 1963, Palo Alto, United States. Ida was born and raised in Palo Alto, California, and as a child, he grew up playing music and started participating in youth symphony and band. He started life playing music as a child that led to studying electronic music in college and also helped him be creative in his artwork. After working for the noted abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis, he later transformed his mode of expression from aural to visual, which later began his painting career. Ida attended the university of San Jose State and Sonoma State University, and he went on to study electronic music composition. After college in 1988, Ida went to work for Sam Francis, which he was a Expressionist painter, and Ida was his studio assistant. Ida felt very privilege to work for Sam which he known through a connection of his good friend Paula. Then in the early 90s, Francis moved Ida down to Los Angeles into his big studio in Venice and he would be instrumental. Ida’s artistic expression from music to painting changed drastically because Sam gave him a chance to paint in his studio.

Career
Sam Francis made a very huge impact in Bryan Ida life because he gave him the privilege to work for him and to move in into his studio. While Bryan Ida moved in Sam studio he had free access to paint, paper and canvas. Bryan picked up technical aspects of painting, and Sam's sense of freedom and release while he painted. In the late eighties Ida started working for Sam as his studio assistant in Palo Alto where he was painting a large commission for the new United Government building in Bonn, Germany. Bryan Ida felt very honored because he helped Sam paint this artwork by helping him out. Bryan was very grateful and absorb some of Sam's knowledge and to instinctively understand his perspective. Bryan and Sam had the same connections because they will correlate between music and painting and how it is the expression of the same consciousness but is conveyed through different senses. Bryan Ida later started using Sam studio and started painting which he later became an expert and started doing what he truly likes.

Bryan Idas artwork came from people's personal stories and experiences which related to something and had a purpose. Ida will use contemporary subjects with a connection to historic events to point out that man’s inhumanity toward man is universal and seemingly unending and ongoing. Ida's visual art represented someone about their life and how it was. He will portray their life with no filter and showed the truth about it whether if their life was good or bad.

Bryan Ida painting is being viewed worldwide and his artwork has been seen and showed in Museum shows include Japanese American Museum San Jose, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, Torrance Art Museum, Riverside Art Museum, Oceanside Art Museum, Triton Museum, MOCA, Los Angeles, Long Beach Museum of Art.

Public Art Collections and Shows
Bryan Ida's work is held in a number of public art institutions, this is a select list including.
 * de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California
 * Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California
 * The BillBoard Creative show
 * 2017 Nov – LA Art core, Little Tokyo LA-2 Person Show “Beauty Awash in a Sea of Bad News”
 * 2017 May – George Billis, LA-Solo Show “Echo and Line”
 * 2016 Oct – Blue rider Art, Taipei, Taiwan-Solo Show “City Symphony”
 * 2015 Sept – Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco “Littoral”-Solo Show
 * 2014 Nov – George Billis, LA “Remnants”-Solo Show
 * 2014 June – Blue rider Art, Taipei, Taiwan “Floating California” Solo Show
 * 2014 May – George Billis, New York   Solo Show
 * 2014 March – Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo “Placing Memory” 2 Person show
 * 2013 May – Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford, CA 3 person show
 * 2013 March – Blue Whale “LACA”, Los Angeles Solo Show
 * 2012 Sept – George Billis, Los Angeles Solo show
 * 2009 Oct – Hang, San Francisco 3 Person Show
 * 2007 July – Bandini Art, Los Angeles Solo show
 * 2005 Sept – Hang, San Francisco Solo show