Saxon Brice is a Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary artist working in oil painting, traditional draftsmanship, and digital media. His current work consists of traditional portraiture, reminiscent of the High Renaissance and Baroque periods, depicting characters of his own time, as well as mixed-media drawings which reimagine various scenes of mythology, history and philosophy, familiar in the common unconscious. Working in a time when classical painting can feel insurmountably distant from the current art world, Brice combines traditional techniques with digital processes, creating a feedback loop between the artist’s hand and the computer in the pursuit of authentically marrying the past with the present. Classical icons and parables of human nature are inverted by imagistic themes of contemporary cultural malaise and rapid technological change, re-contextualizing them as dark mirrors of our own time, and providing a historical perspective that ironically feels fresh and unfamiliar when applied to the contemporary moment.

Brice’s art education began early with his grandfather, mid-century painter and UCLA professor William Brice, who gave him a deep appreciation for the breadth of art history and its traditions, which echoes in his marks. Brice received his BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2010, and later studied classical techniques at the Florence Academy of Art from 2021 to 2022. He has assisted major artists including Doug Aitken, Jesper Just, Duke Riley, and Alex Israel, and has created original artwork for musical artists ranging from Katy Perry to Florence + The Machine. Brice has produced large bodies of work for film and TV, most notably the haunted paintings of Dan Gilroy's 2019 horror/satire, Velvet Buzzsaw, for Netflix. Brice’s work has been included in exhibitions at Block Gallery, Art Division Gallery, and John Natsoulas Gallery, all in California. His artwork is in the collections of the James A. Kidd Foundation.