Artist Bio
In the artwork of Brandon Truscott, supernatural phenomena are intertwined with political and religious symbols that construct visualizations with a dark satirical twist. Brandon T. Truscott earned a Master of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute with an emphasis in Design + Technology, a Master’s of Education with an emphasis in cross-cultural teaching from National University, and a BA in studio art from Humboldt State University. As an exhibiting artist in multiple mediums, he has shown prints in Surreal Salon 9,10, & 11 at Baton Rouge Gallery, sculptural installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, paintings in The Luggage Store Gallery on Market Street in San Francisco, and won Best of Photography at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, CA. His hand-made limited edition book of drawings won the Artist Book Contest at the Anne Bremer Memorial Library in San Francisco, CA. His art and design has been reviewed by critics in the Times-Standard, Art Business, PRINT Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, featured more than 20 times on the AIGA Member Gallery and recently published by [BranD] Magazine, Hong Kong. Brandon is currently an Associate Professor of Motion Graphics at Utah Valley University.
Phase 3 Mag, Issue #1: Sleeping Rainbow Ranch
Newsprint, 48 Pages, 2020
Professors Brandon Truscott and Ben Evjen lead a student trip to the Capitol Reef Field Station in Southern Utah in the summer of 2019. The course of study involved a postmodern approach to analog experimental graphic design practice. Using the student work as content and inspiration Professors Brandon Truscott and Ben Evjen collaborated to design issue number one of Phase 3 Mag: Sleeping Rainbow Ranch.
Gilt Puffin
Oil on Canvas, 2019
Some species of Puffin such as the Atlantic Puffin in Iceland are endangered. The skull has been covered with gold, (gilded, or gilt) to memorialize the beauty of the once living creature. Gilt Puffin is a depiction of the attempt to preserve biological specimen imbued with hints of the macabre and existentialism.
Waiting for Dorothy
Oil on Panel, 2019
Hickory the farmhand from The Wizard of Oz is waiting with a shotgun in his right hand and a lollipop in his left. The shoulder patch indicates his allegiance to the Lollipop Guild. The oil can in the barn window reminds us that Hickory is the Tin Man in Oz. The Wicked Witch of the East with her ruby slippers and stockings was the one who turned the Woodsman to tin and why he lost his heart.
