Brian Nakahara

Born 1982, Berkeley, California
Has practiced at Creative Growth since 2001

Brian Nakahara’s practice began in the Creative Growth Youth Program, where he translated his interest in sports to a colorful aesthetic. Reducing things like hockey jerseys and baseball fields into symbolic design elements, Nakahara’s flattened, geometric compositions pay homage to his athletic heroes. In his portraits of individual athletes, often WWE wrestlers or female bodybuilders, Nakahara develops his own version of collectable cards.

La práctica de Brian Nakahara comenzó en el Programa Juvenil de Creative Growth, donde tradujo su interés por los deportes a una estética colorida. Reduciendo cosas como camisetas de hockey y campos de béisbol en elementos de diseño simbólicos, las composiciones geométricas planas de Nakahara rinden homenaje a sus héroes atléticos. En sus retratos de atletas individuales, a menudo luchadoras de la WWE o fisicoculturistas, Nakahara desarrolla su propia versión de tarjetas coleccionables.