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Brian Porray is an American contemporary artist living and working in Los Angeles, California.

Background and Education
Porray was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and graduated with an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2010.

Career
Porray's work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums including the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Claremont Graduate University, Western Project, CUE Art Foundation, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery on the campus of California State Polytechnic University. His work has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, Modern Painters, New American Paintings, and ArtPulse Magazine, among others. Porray is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Pizzuti Collection in Columbus, Ohio and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles, CA. He is a 2010 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, and was a fellow at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2012.

Work
Writing for ArtPulse Magazine, Jason Hoelschler describes one of Porray’s paintings as "a pictorially aggressive presentation of interrupted patterns, stripes and shapes, pushing toward outright discord. The articulated geometric forms in the center looks like an attempt by Paul Klee and Thomas Nozkowski to build a geodesic dome; almost orderly, but not quite. Even here, though, is a fragmented kind of orderliness. Rather than regularity and pattern we get an irregular almost-pattern of shapes, each containing a section orderly in itself but chaotic in the context of the whole."