FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 2025
Neo Spirito: Paintings and drawings by Saxon Brice at SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC
Artworks curated by SPRING/BREAK as part of the Artist Spotlight series
Magdalena, 2025, Oil on wood panel, irrigation tubing and maquette wire, 62.25 x 57 in.
New York, NY – Saxon Brice presents Neo Spirito, a new series of artworks blending painting, traditional draftsmanship and digital media that speak to a cyborgian future, for the 14th edition of SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Brice’s work will be on view in the fair’s brand-new Artist Spotlight section, Booth B19, from May 6 – 12, 2025.
Neo Spirito is a meditation on our increasingly atomized existence. The theme of the 2025 edition of Spring/Break is PARADISE LOST + FOUND (P -/+), which Brice’s works respond to with imagined techno-dystopias. The featured artworks are Renaissance-style representations of contemporary cyborgian identities, balancing a reverence for historical craftsmanship with an urgent critique of present-day anxieties, particularly those driven by technological upheaval and cultural malaise. Brice’s cyborgian subjects are tangled up in not only machines, but classical myths and religious narratives, offering an ironic (but not entirely cynical) look into our postmodern moment. Brice describes his work as a “dark mirror,” a warning of humanity’s estrangement from its essence but also a beacon of hope for what human hands can achieve.
SPRING/BREAK Info
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/springbreak-new-york-city-2025-4201353
One Hudson Square
75 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013
On view May 6 – 12, 2025
About Saxon Brice
Saxon Brice is a Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary artist working in oil painting, traditional draftsmanship, and digital media. His current work consists of traditional portraiture, reminiscent of the High Renaissance and Baroque periods, depicting characters of his own time, as well as mixed-media drawings which reimagine various scenes of mythology, history and philosophy, familiar in the common unconscious. Working in a time when classical painting can feel insurmountably distant from the current art world, Brice combines traditional techniques with digital processes, creating a feedback loop between the artist’s hand and the computer in the pursuit of authentically marrying the past with the present. Classical icons and parables of human nature are inverted by imagistic themes of contemporary cultural malaise and rapid technological change, re-contextualizing them as dark mirrors of our own time, and providing a historical perspective that ironically feels fresh and unfamiliar when applied to the contemporary moment.
Brice’s art education began early with his grandfather, mid-century painter and UCLA professor William Brice, who gave him a deep appreciation for the breadth of art history and its traditions, which echoes in his marks. Brice received his BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2010, and later studied classical techniques at the Florence Academy of Art from 2021 to 2022. He has assisted major artists including Doug Aitken, Jesper Just, Duke Riley, and Alex Israel, and has created original artwork for musical artists ranging from Katy Perry to Florence + The Machine. Brice has produced large bodies of work for film and TV, most notably the haunted paintings of Dan Gilroy’s 2019 horror/satire, Velvet Buzzsaw, for Netflix. Brice’s work has been included in exhibitions at Block Gallery, Art Division Gallery, and John Natsoulas Gallery, all in California. His artwork is in the collections of the James A. Kidd Foundation.
Website: https://saxonbrice.com/
Instagram: @saxisfaction