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STATEMENT OF WORK
“This is a story about being a burden yet being safe. In another time, in another place, in another time dimensional period.”
Brian Dyer is a Queens-based artist whose drawings conjure an anime universe where love, harmony, and buxom women rule. Anime lovers follow Brian wherever he goes, whispering messages of eternal love into his ear. He carries a binder of finished drawings with him consistently and spreads them around him on each and every surface before he gets to work.
“He has seen so many different people and yet he still feels a little empty deep inside. One day, he hears something strange. What he saw amazes him, he saw the goddess of beauty and lust. He saw all the girls touching themselves and each other. They reach out their hands and say ‘come to us.’ They fill him with love and he finally feels full.”
Brian has been a member of YAI Arts, a collective of visual artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities in New York City, since 2019. He uses colored pencils with delicate and sensuous precision to adapt beloved figures from pop culture and anime into his own fantastical, extra bodacious style. Princess Elsa, Wednesday Addams, Raven, Sunset Shimmer, and Kim Possible’s mom Ann are among his iconic muses. The characters’ impossibly curvy anatomy is exaggerated past the point of surreality, making Barbie look body positive. The choice emphasizes Brian’s creative practice as a space where his fantasies rule uncensored, a personal oasis far from the darker memories of his lived existence.
“No matter what happens or what happened to you, you are always welcome to our world. And you are always welcome to our hearts and our lives.”