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= Bryan Ida =

Life and Education
Bryan Ida was born in California, in Santa Clara County. Bryan played the French Horn in the El Camino youth symphony and school orchestras. Throughout Bryan's High School, he studied and had an extreme passion for electronic music. Bryan Ida indicated that he has always been drawn to music. Being musically inclined, he started learning the French Horn when he was little. He participated in the school orchestra and the El Camino youth symphony and constantly sought innovative techniques to express himself musically, which sparked his interest in electronic music in high school. He continued studying electronic music composition at San Jose State and Sonoma State Universities (Keith & Janet, 2020). After being drawn to music at a young age, Bryan Ida pursued musical art before venturing into physical art, which changed his life and his name as an artist. As the time came and opportunities were provided to Ida, he soon became less interested in music and pursued a passion and career in painting, resulting in fewer music aspirations. After studying electronic music at San Jose State and Sonoma State University, Bryan considered a different path of art expression, painting (Bryan Ida, n.d). This led him to work for Sam Francis when Sam offered him a job. In 1988, Bryan Ida made the decision and went to work for an abstract expressionist painter by the name of Sam Francis. Working with Sam allowed him to work on a commission project that would soon be published in a united government building in Bonn, Germany (LA County Department of Arts and Culture, 2023). Thus, creating such a huge bond with Francis, he was given bigger opportunities leading Bryan to a world of exploration with painting and an array of access.

Career
Bryan Ida has been working on a body of work he calls con.Text over the past five years that explores historical occurrences in light of the current social and political situation and brings attention to past wrongdoing by a government against historically persecuted minority groups. Ida emphasizes the universality and seeming infinity of man's inhumanity toward a man by using current issues related to historical occurrences. Ida renders each person with the exact words that influence them by first using their personal histories, followed by studying and citing material from official statements, declarations, or other kinds of institutional communication. He intends to display the piece in a location that will encourage the most discussion and public participation.

Ida develops ink portraits working from photographs. While many of the source photographs are contemporary images taken by the artist himself, the photographs referenced for Grandfather (2018), Father (2020), and Grandmother (2022) depicting members of Ida's own family are based on photographs by Dorothea Lange taken as part of her assignment from the War Relocation Authority to document the relocation of Japanese Americans during WWII (George Billis Gallery, 2017).

Events
In the featured listed titles, Bryan Ida has constructed various paintings, in fading light series, which contain a particular species that are either considered "threatened" or "endangered" in society. With light and dark, Bryan Ida hopes to express and represent the contrast between hope and despair. His works include Red Panda, African Elephant, Leatherback Turtle, and Whooping Crane. Also, his exhibitions include de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University (University, Santa Clara, 2022). Activities Program Board-Solo Online programming featuring con.Text 2021 February. Next is Ronald H Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles Solo Show con.Text 2021 January. Thirdly, is the Japanese American Museum San Jose Solo show con.Text ink portraits 2020 August. Lastly is West Valley College, Saratoga, CA. Dept. of Student Services, Diversity, and Inclusion Solo show con.Text ink portraits 2020 February (Everybodywiki, 2022)