Brian. Kirk

Purcellville, Virginia

Kirk is an interdisciplinary artist working in a variety of media techniques and materials. He has taught high school and college level art for 30 years.

An avid welded, Kirk founded and taught Metal Sculpture for the Art League School in Alexandria, Va for 25 years. Welding, cutting, forging and forming steel and brazing, cutting, forming and colorizing copper are instructed in his classes to create sculptures.

Kirk also creates stone carving using marble, alabaster, limestone and calcite to create sculptural forms. Kirk favors biomorphic forms for stone.

Kirk is also a printmaker and uses rusty steel plates to create rust shapes that are incorporated into wall sculptures, assemblages and prints. Kirk is scheduled to teach; Sculptural Forms, Printmaking II and Aesthetic Inquiry this fall at Shepherd University. 

His studio and residence are located at his residence near Purcellville, Va.



Affiliations

Adjunct Professor Shepherd University, National Art Education Association, Corcoran and GWU Alumni, BA in Fine Arts GWU, Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies (Fine Arts) VCU.