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Bryan Junius
bryan_junius@cable.comcast.com
Jacksonville, FL USA
Artist Biography
I was born on April 21, 1972 in Cincinnati, Ohio USA and I am 35 years old during the creation of this feature within iD Arts Magazine Jacksonville (September 2007). For as long as I can remember, after putting pen to paper, I have always had the urge to create or just imagine things as they come simply. My parents never encouraged my talents or my academic abilities and the first time I drew Donald Duck from sight and shown the picture to my mother, she only looked at me and stated that I must have copied it because it was "too" good.
My first love was always comic books and I loved to draw these wonderful demi-gods with supernatural powers of flight, speed, strength, and invincibility; in that imaginary world, I could do anything. After my parents divorced, I moved with my father to New York City in 1979. I was seven years old and hated everything about New York City until I left in 1991 when I entered the military.
Never finishing high school, I dropped out during my junior year in 1986 because I wanted so badly to be somewhere else. I wanted to perform. I wanted to create . . . to sing or to dance or simply to entertain people that would listen. I tried to persuade my father into letting me go to the School of Performing Arts, but he insisted I would never make it and would never become anything good in my life.
As I grew older, I learned how to improve my artistic ability; I joined several rock bands, painted denim jackets, created illustrations for local magazines, and even painted or airbrushed guitars. Anything to create or inspire me would get my adrenaline going.
Deciding, if I was not going to get anywhere with my skills, I would at least get away from my parents and the monotony of life. I joined the military and went to boot camp in the Great Lakes and then was shipped out to the fleet in San Diego, California to start my duties in the Navy as a radioman. I spent about a year on the ship before it decommissioned and everyone aboard went their separate ways.
For advanced communications and dive training, I was sent back to school in January 1992. To make extra money, I created portraits of my fellow shipmates or of their girlfriends in flirty poses and was often told that I should be somewhere else making a fortune doing art. I began having some sense of inner satisfaction about where I was going.
After training, I was sent to Naples, Italy and given top secret clearance. This was where my world began and emerged with the sights and sounds of another dimension in the senses. I had spent about three years exploring Italy as much as I could, venturing out to Rome, Bologna, Florence, Padua, Ischia, Capri, and the Amalfi coast down to Sorrento.
I left the Navy in September of 1996, getting a job in Stuttgart, Germany working in the Information Technology field. I spent several years overseas learning the different languages and cultures. I honed my craft in art and continued to pursue my first love although it was for very little recognition and financial gain. People encouraged me in my walk of life to do what comes naturally, which I have always tried to do. I have visited Amsterdam several times, have seen Luxembourg, and have been to France, London, Spain, Saudi Arabia, and others. I have never forgotten the experience and hope one day to return to Europe.
In January 2003, I returned to the wonderful United States of America and have been living in beautiful Jacksonville, Florida trying to gain exposure in the arts once again. Now I am making a serious attempt to be one of the best at what I do and trying to share the exploration of my discoveries with other people. I believe in what iD Arts Magazine Jacksonville is attempting to accomplish, an improved greater Jacksonville arts culture and network of organized art that will change the world as we know it.
Artist Statement
Art for me is a classical thought that combines science with mysticism and holistic religion. Each individual feels an experience and with that experience there is the canvas and the idea that has no creator before it. Sometimes I may feel I have not done something and have this idea of duality in the mind that some ghost in the machine is running the show or that God, in a sense, has taken over my body and therefore gives me some impression. I believe that I think like God, that art is suffering and, like a revelation where mind and body meet, a higher consciousness is introduced.
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