Brandon Hines
Visual Artist
Brandon Hines is an artist working in Pixel Art, based in Los Angeles, California. Known for Baroque, Cartography.
Los Angeles digital artist working where Renaissance and Baroque architecture meet pixel-built surfaces. New Renaissance Studies stage temples, stairways, and maps at the moment of ruin, lit with chiaroscuro. Artist-directed with AI-assisted tools. Limited archival prints.
Gallery representation
Independent Practice / Direct Atelier Inquiries
Original digital studies and limited archival fine-art print editions are documented and released directly through the studio archive (HiArt / New Renaissance Studies). Institution, exhibition, and commission inquiries are handled via direct studio correspondence.
Education
Independent Study — New Renaissance Research Program
2025 – 2026Self-directed research program
Self-directed study of Baroque and Renaissance compositional systems — chiaroscuro, monumental form, and classical proportion — and their translation into digital and pixel-based media as a contemporary painting surface. Focus areas: architectural ruin, dramatic illumination, and the survival of classical visual languages inside digital image culture.
Studio
Independent atelier — Los Angeles, CA. Works are produced and archived in-house; original digital studies and limited archival fine-art print editions are documented through the studio archive (HiArt / New Renaissance Studies). Exhibition, institution, and commission inquiries via direct studio correspondence.
Career
New Renaissance Studies
Founder — New Renaissance Studies · Founder & Visual Artist
Sep 2026
Tools & materials
Artist-directed digital composition — Primary working method.
- Architectural reference, chiaroscuro lighting, and atmospheric depth composed through a directed studio process using AI-assisted tools; concept, selection, editing, and final form by Brandon Hines.
- Pixel-structure construction — Pixel-art and graffuturist surface language woven into classical composition (see The Pixel King, Capitalis Cad).
- Motion studies and video treatments — Short moving-image studies derived from still works; slow ascents, light shifts, and reveal sequences.
- Hand-applied painting and finishing — Physical execution for hybrid works and hand-painted originals; each object labeled by its actual medium.
- Archival pigment print editions — Documented editions from artist-directed digital originals, with work records and certificates.