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Brendan Ripken Shea

April 18, 2018

"I examine painting as a stage for mediating a tender transparent intimacy. The illusionary
components of my work are designed to be visually dissectible; I want the viewer to
understand how I construct space on a two-dimensional surface. These tactics extend to
the physical space my paintings exist in. I build wooden structures that form to my
paintings; these structures deploy configurations of raw quotidian architectural mechanisms, such as walls, table tops, and an internal/external interplay. The rearticulation of this architectural vernacular impedes on the perceived neutrality of the space. I intend to form an awareness on how physical material and patterns of phenomena construct, support, and perpetuate the affective response my paintings evoke." 
 Brendan Ripken Shea

 

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Brendan Ripken Shea is an artist based in the United States who is currently a candidate for a BFA in Painting at Maine College of Art. His work balances a material exploration with an awareness of the medium’s ability to construct intimacy through sustained looking.

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