Saxon Brice is a Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary artist working in oil painting, traditional draftsmanship, and digital media. His current work consists of narrative compositions which reimagine subjects derived from eschatology, mythology, history and philosophy, familiar in the common unconscious, for the contemporary moment. Working in a time when classical painting can feel insurmountably distant from the current art world, Brice combines traditional techniques with digital processes, and contemporary socio-political motifs 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. 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.