Rogue Wave 2013 artist Matthew Brandt has been named one of 50 under 50 most collectible living artists by ART + AUCTION.

“Brandt transmutes photography through unconventional materials, but with a meta twist: Portraits of friends and family are printed using their own sweat and tears; his “Honeybees” series uses victims of a found colony collapse to make an emulsion for resulting photographs. A former assistant to photographer Robert Polidori and a UCLA MFA student under James Welling, the 31-year-old Brandt centers his conceptual body of work on archaic photographic processes like gum-bichromate prints.”

Pick up a copy ART + AUCTION, to read the entire “50 under 50” feature – due out on stands next week.

Matthew Brandt is one of 15 artists from Los Angeles included in Rogue Wave 2013, coming to L.A. Louver this summer (18 July - 24 August 2013).