Brian Oakes

In print! Portrait of Brian Oakes @broakes and his work for @spike_art_magazine - The personal computer is a radical computer! Find excerpts of a conversation between Brian and I recorded in his studio on Taste 101 :)

Thanks to everyone who came out to the opening @__________flatline last Friday! Also thanks to @atsp.saic for having me come talk about my practice and to @83n.art for inviting me to come out in the first place. Thanks to the mechanic that was able to fix my car before I had to drive back to New York and thanks to all the coffee, snacks and gasoline that powered the journey. First time in Chicago! What a blast. Work pictured: Ambry 5, 2025, 36in x 36in x 6in, Materials: custom circuit boards, acrylic, hand made rubies, wire, electronic components, hardware, power supply

Still have a few of these and other smaller works available. Lamp 21 (2025); Dimensions :1.5 ft x 1.5 ft x 2 ft; Materials: printed circuit boards, electronic components, custom 3d printed hardware, power supplies, chain, miscellaneous hardware; ED OF 5

If a corner of the internet could be turned inside out, it might look like the sculpture of Brian Oakes. In our new issue on youth, Ruby Justice Thelot writes that the New York artist is soldering cyberspace back onto its earthly hardware – and rediscovering in this angelic-demonic plane its human minds and hands. Read Ruby’s portrait in “Salad Days” by ordering a copy via the 🔗 in our bio, or via a magazine store near you. Images 1. View of “Lumen Specra,” Visit, New York 2025 2. Mimesis System 4, 2021 3. Display Case 2 (A Garden), 2024 4. Sample Circuit Prototype 2, 2016 #spikeartmagazine #spikeart #spike #saladdays #neogothic

Deeply thankful for another year of profound and spirited fixations. Some studio love (b-side) and some real love (light). Back in the mud for 2026 :)

We’re excited and honored to extend Brian Oakes: Lumen Spectra through January 10th. Rooted in technocraft, Oakes’s illuminated sculptures expose the emotional and perceptual charge of contemporary technology, where light becomes system, signal, and material. Hardware is left visible, not as function, but as form: circuitry that recalls chandeliers, relics, and quiet sites of attention. On view now at Visit. Hours: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 6p - 12a Inquire for private viewings. 📍 8 3/4 Chambers Street, Newburgh Enter through the iron gate @broakes

Hello! I have a bunch of new lighting pieces available! Various sizes/light colors/ editions! Full list of works and prices available in my bio Each piece comes with 6ft of chain for hanging, 20ft power cable and a power supply! Sizes hover around 1.5 to 2.5 ft Materials: printed circuit boards, electronic components, custom 3d printed hardware, power supplies, chain, miscellaneous hardware All works available for pickup ASAP! Will also ship out any works for non NYC people. Can only ship within the US sorry Feel free to DM with any inquiries you might have :)

Huge thank you to @cultured_mag for including me in their Young Artist List for 2025 :) what an honor to be included along with so many other incredible artists this year as well as the past 10 years this list has run. Also cannot express my thanks enough to @erichelgas for masterfully capturing me in my studio :') Link to the full list in my bio!

The moment we step foot in the gallery the glow of Vessel 10 greats us with a warm and yet an assertive presence. Vessel 10, 2025 31” x 31” x 26” Printed circuit boards, electronic components, animated LEDs, power supply, chain Exhibition: Lumen Spectra Artist: Brian Oakes @broakes 📸 @mollie_mckinley

Thank you to all who joined us for the opening of lumen spectra @visit__net gallery this past Saturday :) The show is open until Dec 20th. Gallery hours are wed-sat 6pm-12am or by appointment. Work pictured: Ambry 4, 2025; 30"x 46"x6"; custom printed circuit boards, acrylic, abs plastic, paint, custom hardware, handmade rubies. DM for inquiries

Brian Oakes transforms circuitry, craft, and light into architectures of perception. Lumen Spectra opens Saturday, November 15th 6–10 PM at Visit, Newburgh. @broakes 📸 @mollie_mckinley

Lumen Spectra Brian Oakes @broakes Opening Night: Saturday, November 15, 6–10 PM After party: Music by Sasta @sasta.music , 10 PM–late November 15 – December 20, 2025 Visit, Newburgh We are pleased to present Lumen Spectra, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Brooklyn-based artist Brian Oakes. Rooted in a sculptural language that fuses computation, craft, and the uncanny physicality of technology, Oakes’ work transforms the materials and mechanisms of the digital age into meditations on perception and embodiment. Their practice, which they describe as technocraft, explores how open source tools and hand built systems can reveal the poetry and strangeness within our networked lives. Through these works, screens become thresholds, cables become nerves, and light itself becomes a material of inquiry. In Lumen Spectra, Oakes extends their investigation into the infrastructures of our attention. Each sculpture acts as both conduit and relic: illuminated forms that recall lamps, chandeliers, or circuitry brought to life. Hardware is exposed and recomposed to reveal its quiet potential for emotion, memory, and revelation. By treating the devices of our everyday as artifacts of a shared subconscious, Oakes asks how the objects around us still shape what we imagine as immaterial. Lumen Spectra reflects Oakes’ ongoing dialogue between the physical and the digital, offers us an invitation to witness how illumination itself becomes both signal and soul, casting light on the strange terrain between presence and perception.