Brian Dettmer was born in
1974, in Chicago, Brian Dettmer studied art at Columbia College, where
he focused mainly on painting. During his time working in a signage
store, the artist started exploring the relationship between codes,
text, language and art. He began producing paintings based on sign
language, Braille and Morse Code, then moved on to layered works that
involved pasting newspaper and book pages to a canvas, and it was just a
matter of time before he would discover the talent he is now renowned
for – expert book carving.
