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Brian Flaherty

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My art has several themes to it.  I am a portrait artist. Big faces. Big features, historical figures, like, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr., Louis Armstrong, etc.. A second theme is abstract artist, color field.

A third theme is as an artist influenced by music, and have painted iconic covers such as  Dark Side of the Moon, Live Aid, Speaking In Tongues.  A photographer of the local Washington DC area. I like exploring two interests of mine in art, where Art and History, American, World, meet together to form a journal of the times.  Right now, I see my art portfolio including more acrylic paintings in addition to my oil paintings, in the future.  I’m learning about different ways to produce acrylics.


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2019:Exhibited in Fire Earth Water and Air contest, awarded an “Honorable Mention.”
2014: Mayhem National Juried Show, contest selected a historical work of mine for exhibit, an impasto of the chaos in DuPont Circle during the Attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life.
Other exhibits 2018-19: shown at Gallery Clarendon, Falls Church Arts.
2020: First Free Art Commission, pandemic art: My former store manager commissioned a free artwork of his Associate Manager’s hand, which was unique because that manager had Postaxial Polydactyly.  This was six fingers on the right hand. I was able to take some pictures of the hand to work with.  I immediately thought the work should be a Princess Bride reference, and it became the talk at work.


Education: APS, Arlington Adult Ed.-Arlington Community Learning, 2013-Present:
Oil/Pastel, and Basic Acrylic, Acrylic Pouring.


Medium: Oil, Acrylic, photography, Mixed Media, Drawing and Sketching.

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The Arlington Artists Alliance and Gallery Underground are supported in part by Arlington County through the Arlington Cultural Affairs division of Arlington Economic Development and the Arlington Commission for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Amazon, the National Landing BID,

JBG Smith, and Sotheby's.

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2021 Winner Arlington Community Awards

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