Brandon Schreck
Tense, calm, oceanic, tidal shifts in getting there. Each stage is a breaking point. I think the painting is the space between fragmented memory, peripheral observation, and the tension between stops and starts in process-driven work.
I work mostly backwards towards resolutions. A resolution might be the off key notes that extend beyond where the whole is supposed to go. I think of bringing all of the noise to a point where the sum of many parts resembles a series of relationships.
I have a love/hate relationship with art that is self-referential or art historically aware, as experience is the most effective measure of what I am trying to bring to painting. There is a fine line of space where a compression occurs between receptiveness and resistance. It’s seldom that both a hermetic vacuum and a flood of informational awareness can coexist, but I think that is where I try to be when painting.
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“Ones and Threes”,
the Space Gallery L.I.C, 2007
“Benefit for the Space LIC Artist
Collective”, Levine Residence, 2007
“Small works Show”, Zito
Gallery, L.E.S., 2005
“International Group Show”,
TheXpo Gallerie, DUMBO, 2004
“Wintermix”, Broadway Gallery
NY Arts Magazine, SOHO, 2004
“Apocalypse III”, L.E.S.
Artistes Collective, East Village, 2004
“Emerging Artists”, Loftspace,
Brooklyn, 2002