Brandon Hines
Visual Artist
Brandon Hines is an artist working in Digital Art, based in Los Angeles, California. Known for Abstract Expressionism, Cubism.
Brandon Hines is a Los Angeles digital artist creating New Renaissance Studies—monumental atmospheric worlds bridging Baroque grandeur, pixel worlds, and future mythology.
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.