PERMANENT RECORD May 2020 graduate Brian Tom, winner of the 2020 Grand Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts from the Association of Independent 10
Colleges and Universities of Ohio, creates three-dimensional works that examine the way people try to “fix” a lifetime or time period into one captured moment—such
as a tombstone that exists beyond the life of a person or scenes of childhood that compress time and merge multiple memories into one.
“As I’ve aged, my own personal views and conversations around these subjects have changed and, as a result, my artwork has acted as my diary for each stage of my
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