JJ Brine
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jonathan Friel |
| Born | November 8, 1983 |
| Occupation(s) | Installation Artist, Singer/Songwriter, Filmmaker |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Labels | DrugLord Records |
| Associated acts | The LaBiancas, CodeCracker, Girls Love Ghosts |
| Website | jjbrine.com |
JJ Brine (born Jonathan Friel) is an American visual artist and gallerist. Brine has been called the father of the posthuman art movement. The artist calls himself "The Crown Prince of Hell." He curates and operates Vector Gallery in New York City, which has drawn attention and critical response for its avant-garde postmodern multimedia narratives on Abrahamic religions. The gallery has attracted controversy as “The official art gallery of Satan” and purported operations as a sovereign nation with its own time zone, theology, and community of adherents, Vectorians. Some refer to the gallery as a cult, and to Brine in turn as a cult leader. The NYC location closed when Brine traveled to Tanna, Vanuatu and opened for a period on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles. The press reported Brine’s intentions to move Vector from LA to Washington, DC during the American presidential election season. In August 2016 Brine reopened the gallery in NYC, the fourth in his series of Vector spaces.
Before becoming an artist, Brine attended graduate school at American University of Beirut and was an assistant to National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. Earlier, he interned for the American-Turkish Council.
Brine refers to his installations as "Shrines" and his exhibits combine performance art and visual narrative and his work has been compared to that of Duchamp and Andy Warhol. However, Brine's art has also been acknowledged as lacking in direct formal precedent and has thus been characterized as the beginning its own movement. Brine has referred to this movement as "Posthuman Art."
Brine was sponsored by Select Fair in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 and opened Vector Gallery on site. Part of the gallery’s participation included "Body As Commodity", an installation in which Lena Marquise, performance artist and Vectorian minister of state, charged cell phones with her vagina. Musical artist Usher visited Vector on December 3, 2014, participated and charged his cell phone inside the installation. It was the top story generated during Art Basel. In 2015, Brine was commissioned by clothing retailer Opening Ceremony to provide the space for their tribute to Gregg Araki’s Doom Generation. In 2015 Brine returned to Art Basel and was sponsored by The Satellite Show. His "Satanic Suicide Hotline" won ArtFCity's annual "Who Wore It Better" critique. In December 2015, Brine staged a retrial for Charles Manson in which Manson was played by his reputed son Matthew Roberts, which generated widespread reactions from both the art world and tabloids alike.
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