Ernest Briggs: Ernest Brigg’s volcanic abstract paintings from the 1950’s and 60’s place him firmly in the ranks of the New York Avant-Garde of that era. Until his death in 1984, Briggs continuously explored new ways of combining and changing compositional arrangements and painterly strategies. His compositions are powerful, interpreting nature as a cataclysmic force. Briggs studied at the radical California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in the early 1950s. It was there, under ...
