{"title":"Brent Livingood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/0844\/0092\/files\/Brent_Livingood.png?v=1774891820\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWorks on Paper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaurel Springs, NC | \u003cspan class=\"exhibiting-since-blurb\"\u003eExhibiting Since 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eI would’ve never considered myself an artist until just a few years ago. There seemed something pretentious about the word. An artist, I thought, was an Italian Renaissance painter or a Beat Generation author. An artist was a Beethoven, a Salvador Dali, a Kerouac, a Banksy, a Biles. Artists express themselves with inaccessible poems and metaphors, crescendos and codas, sgraffito and textures, inhuman physical displays of agility and corporeal grace. That is to say, I thought artist were those whose talents surpassed perfection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eAs I accumulated a pocketful of degrees, I came to a much simpler and more \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eaccurate understanding of who an artists is. An artist is a storyteller. Of course \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003ethere are nuances and subtleties to this definition, but in its simplest, easily \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eunderstandable definition, an artist tells stories. My writing, those stories published \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eand unpublished, is all story telling. The photographs I take, whether it is of a bird \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eor a beautiful sunrise, try to tell a story. And when it comes to portrait and\/or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003elifestyle photographs, it is a joint effort between my subject and me to tell their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003estor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003ey. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003ePhotography is not, or doesn’t have to be, news or documentation. When \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003ephotography is an art, I believe it is not only permissible but incumbent on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003ephotographer to render the image emotionally. That is to say, the photograph \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eshould feel such depths of emotion that you can sense that feeling yourself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"perfect-sunrise","title":"Perfect Sunrise","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerfect Sunrise by Exhibiting Artist in Works on Paper, Brent Livingood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFramed and matted\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Livingood, Brent","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51202500231452,"sku":"1026-00231","price":2100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/0844\/0092\/files\/brent-livingood-perfect-sunrise.jpg?v=1739909739"},{"product_id":"moon-over-endor","title":"Moon Over Endor","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoon Over Endor by Exhibiting Artist in Works on Paper, Brent Livingood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures 20x20\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Livingood, Brent","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51202506031388,"sku":"1026-06031","price":1470.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/0844\/0092\/files\/brent-livingood-moon-over-endor.jpg?v=1749147500"}],"url":"https:\/\/piedmontcraftsmen.shop\/collections\/brent-livingood.oembed","provider":"Piedmont Craftsmen Craft Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}