Brady Starr was not allowed to paint using oil until he was twelve, his mother enforced this and only let him have acrylic. His grandfather, Howard Brady was a popular Baltimore oil painter and professional print and design artist. His company Howard Brady Studios commissioned many local clients for artistic design for print and publication. Starr’s mother, Laura Dawn Brady, began passing a lot of Howards skills such as matting and framing onto Brady at a young age. At Twelve, Starr had turned his mothers basement into his personal studio and began testing his new medium.
Since, the artist has displayed oil paintings, drawings, and digital prints at dozens of Baltimore exhibitions, including four solo shows and two movie screenings. He has been featured in What Weekly Magazine who called Starr “a paradox” and City Paper wrote an article called “Our Bloody Underground” about his film, The Lift, after it’s sold out premere.
Starr learned many of the methods and techniques of the Old Masters at The Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, Md. to receive the wisdom of the past while acquiring the creative freedom that only the mastery of traditional skills can provide. He studied oil painting under renowned painter Ann Didusch Schuler and her grandson Andrew Schuler Guerin , watercolor painting under Frederic S. Briggs and Anatomy under Tylden Streett.
After years of juggling various jobs in the service industry and freelance artwork, Starr has committed to a full time career as a professional artist and paints from his studio in Baltimore.
“There is a humanity behind the darkness that is unexpected and immediately connects the viewer to it”
-Brooke Hall and Justin Allen on Starr’s work, What Weekly Magazine
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