Biography
He was invited in Summer 2009 to participate in ‘Manor of Art,’ where he transformed a room in an abandoned nursing home into an immersive sculpture with “A Lifetime of Lazy Choices and An End That Feels Like Fate.” Brennan was an artist-in-residence with the Center for Land Use Interpretation in the high desert of Wendover, Utah, from 2007 to 2009. He showed work from the CLUI residency, including the video "Trajectory," at the Disjecta art space in Portland in Winter 2009, as part of the 'Out of Place' show organized by Nowhere. His large outdoor sculpture “#17” was featured in the 2008 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition in Washington state. His public sculpture “Centropolis” was installed in downtown Bellingham, Washington, as part of the Velocity show through 2010. He is also involved with public art projects in Portland. In 2010, Portland State University commissioned him to build a permanent public artwork for their Architecture Department. In 2008 Brennan’s outdoor sculpture “Invader” at Tryon State Park was featured in Portland Monthly magazine. Brennan was also selected to make a site-specific sculpture for the Portland Building in 2009. In 2006, he designed and built a temporary public artwork, “Project B-7,” on Burnside Ave. in downtown Portland. He is a founding member, curator and designer of the Nowhere gallery ― a nomadic art gallery that travels to events and openings throughout the city. Nowhere gallery has been featured in the Willamette Week and the Oregonian. Since its creation in 2005, Nowhere has exhibited the work of more than 20 Portland artists. Brennan has shown his own work at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, the Walters Cultural Arts Center, and the Hoffman Gallery. His sculptural chair “Ro(_)oM” won first prize at Show2005 in Portland. He is also involved with the Urban Ready Mades project. Brennan graduated with honors from the Oregon College of Art & Craft in 2005. The rigorous course of study at OCAC trained him to transform any material into the objects he wants to create. He frequently works with wood, stone, concrete and metal. Brennan lived in Tokyo for 8 years, working at The Japan Times newspaper, before moving to Portland, Oregon.
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