Reuben Breslar is an interdisciplinary artist mapping and navigating the human experience against the backdrop of time. By exploring the intersection of art, psychology and pedagogy through various processes of experimentation, he aims to document his most vulnerable and authentic reactions and behaviors towards an ever-expanding mental, physical and digital landscape.  Breslar’s research includes painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, digital images, visual journals, photography, installations and Happenings. His process further involves taxonomic methods that provide a format of cross-pollinating artistic disciplines in order to connect to a myriad of sources and information simultaneously, mimicking real-world stimuli.  Drawn to both science and science fiction, social realism and the occult, his practice is a synthesis of relational values that sometimes oppose each other while trying to find common ground in objecthood.  He believes life is about existing within a framework of contradictions and art can be a vehicle to both explore and heal the void between otherwise limited experiences and perspectives.  By tracking a sequence of production through its various forms and translations, Breslar aims to test the limitations of his ideas against societal structures and rule-based systems. This evolution of thought patterns and existence includes his search for origins of identity and human connectivity in psych-heavy drawings, transformative installations and communal Happenings, amongst others.  How we collect and contain the world around us sheds light on the human condition and Time becomes the ultimate medium in use as Breslar bridges a network between consciousness and corporeality.  In this interspace, between interoception and exteroception, private sentiment meets public domain as a form of creative expression questioning order and meaning.

Breslar’s work has been exhibited in the U.S. and internationally and exists in numerous private collections.  He received his BFA from The Corcoran College of Art + Design and has worked professionally in museums, school systems and as an entrepreneur.  Breslar believes in social justice, including the creative arts, and divides his time between a formal studio practice and community outreach.  Currently he is working on self-publishing his first book, The Mind Map Archive, a ten-year social science project rooted in art and mental health.  Breslar currently lives in Portland, Oregon.