Since 1977 Brni Lavrisha has shown his work more than fifty times in venues ranging from small galleries to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Artist Statement
I have found it to be easier for me to paint or assemble a construct than to write about it."

I am fortunate enough to live near woods with a creek that supplies me with both found objects and inspiration for my work. A found object, when resurrected, is given another chance to be useful and meaningful rather than becoming waste or polluting the water. Throughout this process, I find that I am most content when I am creating something and giving it a new voice.

As I transform various found objects, usually recovered from Euclid Creek, I try to develop a new meaning. The objects are stones, fossils, industrial steel parts, driftwood, and automotive industrial plastics. Every piece has a historical reference, and through my new juxtaposition, a new history. Each title provides a clue to what I see as a meaning of the piece, either directly or circuitously.

My two-dimensional work is also a combination of forms and outlines in acrylic paint, with oil pastel, pencil, and India ink. We are bombarded with visual images and only retain fragments of the mass. I create spiritual and visceral combinations, sometimes using a circle and the outer periphery or forms bisected by bands of color like a fragment of a rainbow. These shapes, colors, and lines reveal themselves in the making to impart a message, just as the found objects from the creek reveal their renewed significance.