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Brian Rego received his BFA in Painting at the University of South Carolina after being selected for the Ed Yaghjian Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Work in 2004. By 2007, he received his MFA in Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he encountered painters who shared his interest in observational painting. Rego soon co-founded a painting collective appropriately named “Perceptual Painters” to continue working, exhibiting, and teaching with this community of painters. Over the past 18 years, Rego has been devoted to teaching art through multiple institutions such as the University of South Carolina, the College of Charleston, the University of Mississippi, the Jerusalem Studio School, Art New England at Bennington College, and Mt. Gretna School of Art. He also co-founded and ran the Midlands School of Art, which offered exploration of materials and visual perception.
For material to exist, space is its prerequisite. I am a painter whose interest lies in the relationship between the appearance of a thing, its action, the specific effect it has on other things, and the cumulative effect many things have on one another in composite fields of space. I reference the landscape and the figure to serve as the modalities for this interest. If my paintings are imbued with narratives, they are as a natural consequence, and develop as spontaneously as the paintings they imbue. The meaning of the paintings depend upon what each viewer brings to them.
