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HALSEY MCKAY is pleased to present, Mornings, Sentimental, Wonder & Accoustic Shadows, Patrick Brennan’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Working in real time, Brennan’s paintings function as transference of a particular time of day, season or emotional state. A visceral sense of temporal immediacy is felt at first glance. The eye is lead through a series of choices and materials that appear unexpected or even random.Time to slows down in front of Patrick Brennan’s paintings. The eye is lead through a series of choices and materials that appear unexpected or even random. Eventually these choices coalesce and new details emerge. Just as the artist exploits the immediacy of discovery the viewer is in turn transported through her own narrative version of each painting’s history. A visceral sense of temporal immediacy is felt as Brennan’s paintings can function as transference of a particular time of day, season or emotional state.
Working with abstraction by any materials necessary, Brennan employs oil, acrylic, silk, paper, spray paint, iridescent medium, mylar, plastic, wood, photographs, cardboard, pencil, ink, and varnish. The elements are collected from fellow artists studios, discoveries in his own workplace, art supply and hardware stores. Brennan’s experimental use of these materials drives the work, as each piece finds a home on the picture plane and influences its neighboring marks, strokes and textures.
PATRICK BRENNAN was born in Syracuse, New York and now resides in New York City. He studied at Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute and received a BFA in Painting and Video Art from Alfred University in 1998. Recent exhibitions include: Halsey McKay Gallery, MOMA / PS1, Galerie Lelong, Nicole Klagsbrun, Monya Rowe Gallery, Zieher Smith, Edward Thorpe Gallery, Artist Space and Clifton Benevento in New York as well as with Romer Young Gallery in San Francisco and Heiner Contemporary, Wash. D.C. Brennan has been awarded residencies at Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta GA, Burren College of Art (Ireland), and The Experimental Television Center Owego, NY.