ABOUT SHAYNE BRANTLEY
​Deftly rendered and ambitious in scale, Brantley’s paintings are fantastically intimate and subtly engaging. Brantley is a graduate of the University of Minnesota MFA program including an Artist Residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine). His works have been featured in numerous exhibitions across the United States including Texas, Minnesota, Maine, and Illinois. He currently resides in Galveston, Texas.
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HIS WORK
Richly layered application of paint and resonant color palettes are deployed on metal, wood, canvas and paper. Shayne Brantley’s work is visceral, creating sublime planes of rich imagery and powerful compositional sweep.
“I’ve always felt my art is fairly straightforward. It is neither ironic nor satirical. What I like to produce are pieces that are open and ethereal. I use a technique that is almost sculptural in application; building surfaces of different color and texture, then scraping back through them. Philosophically the work seems to struggle between “being” and “nothingness” capitulating toward “being” with the caveat that purpose is no qualifier of being. All this is squeezed through my psyche, not archetypical or Jungian, simply somewhat shared. Eventually I’m hoping the images are evocative enough to put a “there” there.”
A fantastic play of representation and color, attenuated by texture mapping an experience the viewer’s own imagining animates with the skill and ingenuity of the artist’s endeavor always within reach.