JJ Brine

The NYC location closed when Brine traveled to Tanna, Vanuatu and opened for a period on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles. The press reported Brine’s intentions to move Vector from LA to Washington, DC during the American presidential election season. The final incarnation of the Vector Gallery opened in the fall of 2017 at 951 Grand Street in Brooklyn and closed in September 2018.

The Vector Gallery moved back to New York City with its fourth incarnation opening in August 2016 at 199 E. 3rd Street in the East Village. The Vector Gallery endured an electrical fire in January 2017; the gallery sustained minor danger. During the "Bravana: Middle East Peace Mass" on March 1, 2017 (which also happened to be Ash Wednesday) an onlooker on the street called 911, mistaking controlled flames being used in the mass for a fire. The FDNY showed up with three trucks and over 20 fire fighters to shut down the small gallery space for the night. On March 31, 2017 New York City Buildings Department filed complaints that the Vector Gallery was "being used illegally for religious assembly". The East Village location of the Vector Gallery closed on July 1.

The fifth incarnation of the Vector Gallery, dubbed "Vector V: The official art gallery of Jesus Christ", was slated to open at 951 Grand Street in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn on November 16, 2017.

In April 2015 Brine announced the NOIR (Night Of Interior Restitution) Covenant, which detailed the means by which souls could be reclaimed and offered "an irreversible decline" to the city of New York.

In 2015, Brine was commissioned by clothing retailer Opening Ceremony to provide the space for their tribute to Gregg Araki’s Doom Generation. Brine moved the Vector Gallery to Los Angeles in the summer of 2015. Vector Gallery opened at 8 pm, August 8, 2015 on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, again generating attention from the art press and controversy and protests from local residents. On December 28, 2015 the Vector Gallery hosted "The Retrial Of Charles Manson", featuring Manson's alleged biological son Mathew Roberts. "The Retrial Of Charles Manson" was covered by media outlets such as TMZ. In 2015 Brine returned to Art Basel and was sponsored by The Satellite Show. His "Satanic Suicide Hotline" won ArtFCity's annual "Who Wore It Better" critique. After closing the gallery in Los Angeles, Brine announced plans to open it in Washington, DC “to program the elections, to make my commentary on them.”

JJ Brine has been called “an icon of post-American America.” In September 2015, Vice ran an article depicting an event in which Brine and his Vectorian Government placed a curse on Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, citing her refusal to issue gay marriage certificates as the motive for the ritual. Brine’s art has been praised by underground filmmakers John Waters and Bruce LaBruce. Brine’s occultism has drawn the attention of conspiracy theorists, who believe he is part of a new world order global conspiracy.

Brine and the ministers of Vector began holding a series religious services as performance art at the gallery on February 1, 2014.

Brine was sponsored by Select Fair in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 and opened Vector Gallery on site. Part of the gallery’s participation included "Body As Commodity", an installation in which Lena Marquise (Vectorian minister of state), charged cellular devices with her vagina. Famed. Musical artist Usher visited the Vector booth on December 3, 2014 and participated by charging his cell phone inside the installation. It was the top news story generated during the 2014 Art Basel. The Vector Gallery Art Basel installation was also featured on The Real Housewives of New York City and TMZ on TV.

Brine was openly gay. His friendship with actress Amanda Bynes garnered international tabloid attention in 2014.

On July 15, 2013 Brine opened Vector Gallery on 40 Clinton Street in the Lower East Side of New York. However, the venue lost its lease at the end of May 2014 and the gallery relocated to 154 East Broadway, straddling the border between the Lower East Side and Chinatown, 11 days later. The second space contained a backroom signposted, "Cost Of Entry Your Soul."

On October 16, 2013, Vector celebrated the 75th birthday of The Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico with "Time Doesn't Move."

In 2010 Brine moved to New York City. Inspired by his love for The Velvet Underground & Nico he chose to take residence on St Marks Place in the East Village. Brine pursued music releasing a 2012 album "President of Mozambique". He later formed the band The LaBiancas with fellow performance artist & frequent collaborator Lena Marquise.