Brendan Barnes
Artist Statement
Brendan is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, digital media, acrylic painting, and poetry. Brendan’s visual work utilizes symmetry and other devices as a structure for creating emotionally evocative abstract compositions with vibrant colors. Brendan’s visual work and poetry are preoccupied with themes of mystery and the practice of being absorbed in the present moment. Brendan introduces ways to live in undefined spaces where all things are experienced as fresh and possible. Brendan’s work often raises the question “What is it?” in the viewer’s mind. The work refuses to be adequately defined and answer this question for the viewer. Instead, Brendan draws the viewer into deeper and deeper states of wonderment and towards a greater appreciation of our ultimately mysterious and beautiful reality.
Brendan’s Art Hop reception will feature the release of his book Unknowing: Instructions to Find a Timeless Realm. Brendan will read some of his book’s poetry at this exhibition. Unknowing/Instructions to Find a Timeless Realm/ Or: The Door To Mystery is an invitation to leave the world as we know it behind, and dive deeply into the eternity which dwells amid the present moment. Created over the course of 8 years, this book of poetry and drawings opens wide the door to a little-known world of mystery. The world revealed in Unknowing… is our world, seen through fresh eyes, not clouded by the cares of the world or attempts to understand and define.
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