artist - Brad Brenner

born 6-9-59, New York, NY

Art, for me, is about creating a feeling that can be shared. Art is about relationships. The relationship between light and dark, color and non-color, warm and cool, form and formless. Most importantly, art is about the relationship between the viewer and the painting. There is a universal feeling that I try to get to in each piece and I use that feeling or emotion as the barometer to know when I should put the brushes down. As with the interconnectedness of individual components of a work of art, there is an interconnectedness between people that binds them to something greater than themselves. It is the wholeness of life. It is that feeling that I'm trying to capture and reconnect both myself and the viewer to.

Selected Recent Exhibitions:

2007:Museum of Contemporary Art, Hot Springs, AR

'Pleasures of the Palette' benefit for CASA, Phoenix, AZ

Peter Lowell's, Sebastopol, CA (solo show)

POP Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (group show)

'Face to Face', Bonner David Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo show)

Gallery Savarese, Encinitas, CA (solo show)

2006: 'Filled with Figures', Bonner David Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

Lagerquist Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo show)

2005: 'New Blood', Finer Things Gallery, Nashville, TN

Metropolitan Gallery, San Diego, CA (solo show)

Indigo, San Diego, CA (solo show)

2004: Art Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

Diverse Convergence, Wilde Meyer Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

Nature, ArtForte, Seattle, WA

2003: Summer Show, ArtForte, Seattle, WA

The BBC Show, Wilde Meyer Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

2002: Recent Works, A Gallery Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA,

2000: A Color Filled Eye, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL

New Directions '2K, Barrett Art Center, NY National Juried Exhibition

The Faces of Women, Bender Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

San Diego Museum of Art, All California Juried Exhibition

1999: Color is Everything, Bender Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (solo show)

1998: American Airlines Admirals Club, Orange County, CA

New Images, New Forms, Art Expressions, San Diego, CA

Childhelp USA Red Dress Ball, La Jolla, CA

1997: Gallery Blu, Palm Desert, CA (solo show)

San Diego Designers Showcase, San Diego, CA

Childhelp USA Monte Carlo Grand Prix, Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Sonoma Design Gallery, Sonoma, CA (solo show)

White River Gallery, Vail, CO

Left Bank Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA