Brian Thoreen is an American designer and artist who lives and works between Los Angeles and Mexico City. He creates functional and nonfunctional works which gather their ethos from the integral nature of the materials within the application.
Focusing on material and form his works find ways to an unexpected existence. His body of work contains studies on material independence and interdependence offering the materials used an opportunity to be expressed, often raw and untreated, pushing the boundaries of whatever limits are intrinsic to the materials themselves. This unfiltered methodology is visible throughout his works, whether formed of hand-blown glass, industrial rubber sheets, or hand-hammered copper. By filtering his ideas through the lenses of emotion, technique, playfulness, and experimentation the end results vary but are aligned through a continuous red thread.
Relocating his primary place of residence to Mexico City, Thoreen was offered many collaboration opportunities. Over the past years, he has co-founded MASA as well as experimental glass-making collective Vissio. These partnerships have expanded his capacity for further experimentation pushing him to the edges of his own intellectual boundaries.