Brian Andrews
Visual Effects Supervisor

Brian Andrews is a contemporary artist, critic, and competitive barbecue grill jockey in San Francisco. His work employs a range of technologies in photography, video, and taxidermy in order to confront the viewer with images that reside on the uncanny line between the living and the automaton. The images are rooted in perceptual experience, and are mediated by the techniques of special effects. These effects are not reality simulations or surreal aberrations; rather they are visual mechanisms that expose political and ontological undercurrents of contemporary culture. His artwork has been exhibited internationally, including at the Hong Kong Exhibitions Centre and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Understanding art-making as a communicative exercise, Brian Andrews also records on contemporary art as the west coast bureau chief for Bad at Sports Contemporary Art Podcast. His writings can be found in Artnet, Beautiful / Decay Magazine, as well as numerous catalogs. He received a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002 and a Bachelors of Arts in Visual Arts and Psychology with Highest Honors at the University of California San Diego in 2000. Currently, he is the Course Director for the compositing program in animation and visual effects at Expression College for Digital Art in Emeryville, California. He currently resides in San Francisco with his wife Stephanie, cats Opie and Mara, and barbeque named Blue.