Tag: Justin Brennan

Spatial Harmony: Justin Brennan, Aaron Troyer
and Kero Johannes, plus Nikki Woods:
Conjuring Images, at HEDGE

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HEDGE Gallery opens two exhibits this summer season, and kickstarts new programming that includes group exhibitions, which will be an up-and-coming part of our regular scheduling in 2025 and 2026. Spatial Harmony opens May 17, featuring recent paintings by Justin Brennan, with Columbus-based painter Aaron Troyer and Cleveland ceramicist Kero Johannes. Abstracted scenes, spirited color palettes and optical illusions create […]

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Motion Arrested: Justin Brennan at HEDGE

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Velocity stands still in the portraits and interiors by Justin Brennan in his solo show, Wide-Eyed, on view at HEDGE Gallery until June 30, 2023. There’s flurry all awry here, in the unfinished movement of living. Portraits of the famous and not-famous gaze right back atcha, gallery-goer, triumphant in their purples and teals and blues and peaches. These armatures of […]

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Summer of Expressionism at HEDGE

Artists Justin Brennan and Douglas Max Utter continue their artistic quests to decipher the world around them, painting expressive portraits and narrative scenes which interpret and reflect the human psyche. This May, HEDGE Gallery opens Wide Eyed, a rousing array of new figurative paintings by Justin Brennan. Brennan continues his exploration of the human form: dissecting faces, studying the body […]

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The Eyebrows Say “Whoa!” Justin Brennan at HEDGE

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Paintings can foreshorten and remake experience, transcribing in a directly sensual, primal tongue.  This ambitious undertaking is often bitter and disappointing — but pocked with thrilling episodes. It’s a search for the kind of truth that immediacy conveys, a body-to-body, first person narrative approach to communication. Either there’s no room for error, or (more likely) the error is all the […]

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CAN Triennial Artist Roster Announced

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The number of artists who applied to the curated CAN Triennial exhibition was enormous, and the range of their experience and accomplishment, the diversity of their techniques and perspectives all were inspiring. We should not be surprised: this is emblematic of the energy and intensity visible every week in the Cleveland art scene. In all, curators William Busta, Angelica Pozo, […]

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