Shayne Brandel

On some level, I think that the goal for most artists is to represent reality, however subjective that reality may be. My personal interest in that representation lies within the ongoing fragmentation of reality and the process of the physical, and the ephemeral quality in which we take it all in. Objects, surfaces and forces we interact with are in a constant state of opposition.

Shanghai Tour Bus Oil on Canvas 72 x 48 inches

Banjo String Oil on Canvas 18 x 24 inches

Stryde Oil on Canvas 72 x 96 inches

Phold Oil on Canvas 30 x 24 inches	Stryve Oil on Canvas 24 x 18 inches

Wravel Oil on Canvas 24 x 18 inches	Tyrn Oil on Canvas 72 x 48 inches

Lipht Oil on Canvas 36 x 24 inches	Slyde Oil on Canvas 36 x 24 inches

Shyft Oil on Canvas 78 x 42 inches	Tayg Graphite on Paper 29 x 21 inches

Frisk Oil on Canvas 72 x 48 inches

Exhibition "Citizen" April 15th to May 4th 2006
On some level, I think that the goal for most artists is to represent reality, however subjective that reality may be. My personal interest in that representation lies within the ongoing fragmentation of reality and the process of the physical, and the ephemeral quality in which we take it all in. Objects, surfaces and forces we interact with are in a constant state of opposition.

Add - Take away
Action - Reaction
Order - Chaos

These are the processes I am trying to address in my surfaces. More often than not, the image (hand, animal, nature) has little to do with my interest in the work. More over, most of the paintings are, to me, in a constant state of change. If I could I would keep all of my work so that I could continue each of those processes indefinitely. However I chose instead to suspend each process, or at least slow it down, by hanging them to sell. In consequence my hope is that the viewer finds a snapshot of a larger evolution. If I succeed, some of these viewers will react by becoming conscious of the opposing forces within their own subjective reality. Possibly inspiring those viewers to create or influence those around them. Thus continuing the evolution of each of these pieces long after they have left my studio.

Grip Oil on Canvas 84 x 84 inches

Scrub II Oil on Canvas 54 x 96 inches

Wreck II Oil on Canvas 60 x 48 inches

Horn Oil on Canvas 15 x 30 inches

Ground I Oil on Canvas 12 x 10 inches	Ground VIII Oil on Canvas 12 x 10 inches

Ground III Oil on Canvas 12 x 10 inches	Ground IV Oil on Canvas 12 x 10 inches

Ground X Oil on Canvas 12 x 12 inches

Ground V Oil on Canvas 8 x 24 inches

 

Artist Statement 2003

Sitting on rose red fingers
Seeing into the barbed wire
Beyond pebbles
Beyond pine needles
Past oil stained pavement
Through water wrought windshields
Into the most delicate of intricacies
She said to me;
"Pull it out. splash it down and reverse your view.
Then when it becomes something akin to the whole,
Sculpt it from that."
Then to my terror, she concluded
"Destroy it and repeat."

So there I was
Left in a place where nothing gets finished
Yet lives and breathes in it's own space.
For, at some moment,
The cycle was broken.
And another was born

Tangark 1 Mixed Media on Rag Paper 50 x 38 inches

Radiotype 1 Mixed Media on Canvas 60 x 48 inches

"Sneak" Mixed Media on Rag Paper 30 x 23 inches	"Take" Mixed Media on Rag Paper 30 x 23 inches

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