[1] Brian Borrello is a visual artist, designer, educator and public artist. His experience with a broad array of sculptural and graphic techniques, and a versatile range of conceptual approaches is evident in his paintings, sculptures and public art pieces. As a visual artist, Brian is particularly interested in creating awareness of human life in balance with other life forms and with our shared environment. In his art for the public realm, he seizes opportunities to make 'places' by activating urban spaces through image, form and symbol, in response to history, community and context.
[2] Brian Borrello's Silicon Forest (2003) is an abstract sculpture made of stainless steel and light-emitting diode (LED) lights, installed at the Interstate/Rose Quarter MAX Station in Portland's Lloyd District. It depicts a series of trees with thin trunks and cone-shaped foliage.The piece has been called a "three-part metaphor for displacement and change".The solar artwork's steel trees illuminate using electricity powered by solar panels.
The rich green graduating colour visually communuicates the ecological benefits of the sculpture and its animated, ethereal design with proportions gives it a cartoon-like feel to it. The sculptures grandeur gives the feeling of being a creature or insect walking through fields as if you’re in a sort of wonderland making it feel other worldly.
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