Work of David Brisson David Winslow Brisson (1930–1982) was an artist whose work dealt with visualization of mathematical structures, particularly four-dimensional geometry. He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1953, and an MFA from Ohio University, Athens, in 1955. He also studied with Hans Hofmann in Provencetown MA, in the summer of 1956. He taught at University of Rhode Island (1956), the Kansas City Art Institute (1956-1958) and Auburn University (1958-1965) before becoming an Associate Professor at Rhode Island School of Design in 1965. It was at RISD that he began his visual explorations of multi-dimensional space. I met David in January 1980, as a RISD student in his course on visualizing the fourth dimension. Our friendship was transformative for me – I am a professor of mathemaics now, because of Dave. Richard Hammack

Early Work

	1. Nature drawing (opaque water color) 1949		2. Figure drawing (Charcoal) 1950-51		3. Figure drawing (Charcoal) 1950-51		4. Figure drawing (Charcoal) 1950-51
	5. Seated Figure (40" × 52", oil) senior year at RISD 1953		6. Compo (36" × 24") 1955		7. Portrait (30" × 27.5) 1955		8. The Blue Angel (enamel mosaic, 25" × 21") 1955

Painting between 1956 - 1965 after Dave studied with Hans Hofmann, summer 1956

	9. (oil) 1956		10. (oil) 1957		11. (oil)		12. Die Brücker (oil)
	13. (oil)		14. (oil)		15. (oil)		16. (oil)
	17. (oil) 1965

	18. Model of 4-D Octahedron 1968		19. Model of 4-D Simplex 1968		20. Hyper Hyper Cube 1968		21. Co-ordinates planes of a 4-D grid (oil) 1969
	22. Model of 600 Cell		23. Model of 600 Cell (detail of 22)		24. 5-D cube (Elastic string)		25. 24-Cell (Silver elastic string)
	26. close-up of 25		27. Two projections of Hypercube		28. Hyperanaglyph of Hypercube		29. Hyperanglyph
	30. Hyperanglyph		31. Circle Surfaces		32. Circle Surfaces		33. 4-D Simplex
	34. Hypersphere		35. Ten of the hypercubes around a point in 4-D space (gold chain and plexiglass)		36. Snowflake Surface 24"× 24"× 25" (RISD Museum, 1982)		37. Hypercube (plexiglass tubes) 1970 - RISD Fashion Show
	38. Detail of 37		39. My Left Hand Lenticular 3-D drawing		40. Hypersterogram		41. Hypersterogram
	42. Hypersterogram		43. Hypersterogram 1977

Watercolors by David for relaxation - summers 1966 to 1980 at beach on south coast of RI

44. 1977

45. 1966

46. 1974

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• Itsuo Sakana, Hypergraphics, Kagakuasahi Journal of Science, No. 6, 1984.
• John White, David Brisson: Drawing the Fourth Dimension, ReVision, pp 113-116, Spring 1984.
• Work included in Form and Space; a form of a Multidimensional World, by Koji Miyazaki, Kyoto, Japan, 1983.
• John White, Graphics, David Brisson, OMNI Magazine , pp40-191, November 1983.

• Size Constancy, Terry Pope's Glasses and the Moon Illusion1982, Leonardo, Vol. 13, Number 3, 1983.
• An Extension of the Experiment of Kunis Kondo and Tara Tajima with Stereo Vision without optical Aid, Engineering Design Graphics, Spring 1982.
• The Graphic Plotting of Complex Slopes of Ordinary Differential Equations, Engineering Design Graphics Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2, 1981.
• Hypergraphics: Visualizing Complex Relationships in Art, Science and Technology (Edited by D. Brisson), AAAS Selected Symposia Series, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1978.