ARTIST BRIAN ALFRED - Interview 1 > 5 mins

A few years back, he started to do well as an artist, first with New york art dealer Max Protetch, then Mary Boone, and then to London's mega gallery, Haunch of Venison. You can see his work on his website paintchanger.com. His work is a very distinctively skillful blend of painting, collage, and digital images that early on, focused on landscape but I first know him for his portraits that I saw in Mercer St. Medical, and worked back through his output to the work he is best known for. He was admired by his peers, known for extreme focus on his subject, a relentless work ethic and was approached by New York art dealers before he graduated. He'd encountered real interest for his work real fast, and deservedly so. The influences on his work run from Hokusai and Japanese woodblock print art to Warhol and Ruscha but of course there's more. (he grew up in Pittsburg PA) His work is clear, precise, and had gone though a palpable change since 9/11. It has, in many ways become neo-Orwellian. He has continuity in his aesthetic, but is not afraid to follow his own side roads when it comes to painting.

For the first time in his life not only could he afford it, he did have health insurance. He decided to shop for a family physician because he was married with children on the way. His choice of a physician turned out to be a life changer in ways he just never imagined. He talks about it in some detail in this video.

What makes Brian unique is his total lack of having a family physician, ever, until he was referred to Daryl Isaacs through another artist. Brian discusses his experience as a an artist/patient of Dr. Isaacs, the brilliantly quirky internist that has been adopted for many artists and cultural figures as their doctor of choice. (Pro-choice?)(of course!)

Directed by Paul H-O 2011 All Rights Reserved

Brian Alfred is represented by The Haunch of Venison Gallery of London, Geneva and New York.
Music by Don Chambers
Production Assembly NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OR SALE - NON-COMMERCIAL WORK ASSEMBLY