Satellite, Unagi & Elbow Room

Satellite,

oil & spray paint on Masonite, 180 x 150cm, 2015

Unagi,

oil & spray paint on Masonite, 180 x 150cm, 2015

Elbow room,

oil & spray paint on Masonite, 180 x 150cm, 2015

in progress

installation @ Lost Cat, Cape Cod Musuem of Art

Left: Valerie Brennan

Right: James Austin Murray

There are also some great install shots posted on Art Orbiter

Lost Cat

Lost Cat @ The Cape Cod Museum of Art,

curated by Susan Carr & Betty Carroll Fuller

Still I Rise

Mandy Lyn Ford, New Wave, Oil Paint, Acrylic, Sparkle Foam, and Canvas on Canvas Adhered to Wood Panel, 10 x 8 inches, 2014

Please join us for a special Winter Giving Season edition of the Urbano Cellars Art Salon Project, curated by Kimberly Rowe, a local internationally exhibiting artist and curator. The reception is Wednesday, November 11th, 5 - 7 p.m., and features the work of fourteen contemporary abstract painters.

The show, Still I Rise: Recent Work by Powerful Women, takes it's name from a poem written by the inimitable Maya Angelou, who did not let being a woman, or African American, or someone whose own life was fraught with incredible trials and tribulations, cause herself to shrink.

At a time when women and women's rights continue to be devalued, it is important to seek and find the power in each one of them. These artists who are featured here are examples of women who choose to live out loud. Among other things, they practice abstract painting, which has been said to be a political act. Both painting and abstraction are often disparaged, mainly because they are not always understood, which can serve as a metaphor for these makers. The exhibiting artists include, Valerie Brennan, Joyce Conlon, Mandy Lyn Ford, Ruth Freeman, Sarajo Frieden, Ellie Fritz, Molly Herman, Amelia Layton, Seren Moran, Laura Viola Preciado, Kimberly Rowe, Jennifer Turnage, Alison Woods and Rachel Znerold.

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nothing but good

Nothing but Good

Valerie Brennan/ Glyn Hughes

www.nothing-but-good-art.blogspot.nl/2015/10/valerie-brennan-glyn-hughes.html

States of being @ Torrance Museum of Art

installation shots of the show, beautifully curated by Julia Schwartz

photos by Gene Ogami

Valerie Brennan

left to right; Sabine Tress, Julia Schwartz, David McDonald

left to right; Jennifer Wynne Reeves, Julie Torres, Mira Gerard

left to right; Jennifer Wynne Reeves, David McDonald, Jennifer Wynne Reeves

left to right; Lucy Mink, Jennifer Wynne Reeves

States of Being @ TAM

David McDonalds,

Self Portrait ( Underground Self ), 2011

States of Being @ The Torrance Museum of Art

Sat Oct 3 to Sat Oct 21 2015

The Torrance Art Museum presents States of Being, an exhibition curated by Julia Schwartz that philosophically explores how nine artists construct meaning through use of various materials.

The phrase states of being can reference many different physical and psychological properties. However, these international artists – Valerie Brennan, Rebecca Campbell, Lucy Mink, Mira Gerard, David McDonald, Jennifer Wynne Reeves, Julia Schwartz, Sabine Tress, and Julie Torres – are united in their desire to interpret their world in particular and specific terms. Each identifies a particular state of being as essential when creating their work, whether it be painting, drawing, or sculpture. Their state of being is not necessarily reflective of a state of mind. Instead, these artworks reveal how the artists find or expose themselves at any given point in time – as mothers, fathers, women, men, artists, survivors, traumatized souls, and human beings.

3 drawings of mine will be included in the show

The Black & White Project

my work will be included in the publication part of

THE BLACK & WHITE PROJECT by Yifat Gat

info here at Look e Listen

right Valerie Brennan left Paul Behnke

The catalog for “The Black and White Project”

now includes works by 100 artists from around the world,

and is available for purchase at Blurb

mirror mirror

Mirror, Mirror,

oil & spray paint on wood, 38 x 46 cm, 2015

Pulp Painting

Opening Sat 12th Sept, from 3pm till dark

Exhibition continues until Fri 18th Sept,
Open daily including Sunday from 10am to 12.30am or by appointment 99 655112

Studio Apothiki is very pleased to present its second September Salon, Pulp Painting.

This year's exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of 25 international abstract painters. The idea of Pulp painting was first created by Inga Dalrymlpe in a Facebook conversation with Valerie Brennan during a running commentary on a painting by Sabine Tress. Quick, dynamic, bold, lurid, brash, spectacular....words that come to mind when you think of pulp (as in fiction) and as painters we know that our best work is often either the quickest work we make or the slowest, most difficult work to complete. Pulp Painting celebrates those rare moments when everything falls into place and a great painting arrives that is beyond our expectations.

Featuring

Emily Auchincloss USA| Julie Alexander USA| Cande Aguilar USA| Karl Bielik UK|

Studio Apothiki is a working studio and occasional gallery that hosts periodical curated events. We are interested in the promotion and dissemination of quality contemporary art, with a specific focus on abstract painting. Founded in 2014, Studio Apothiki is run by Valerie Brennan.

We are located on the corner of Athinas & Marias Sygklitikis st,
Opposite the House of Arts & Letters (Stegi)
Paphos
Tel: 99 655112
Valeriebrnnn@yahoo.com