DRURY BRENNAN
CONTEMPORARY CALLIGRAPHY ARTIST AND CERAMICIST
This site was created as a final project for an Art History class at Kalamazoo College - Art Since 1945, taught by Dr. Christine Hann, Fall 2014
CALLIGRAPHY WORK
Brennan considers himself a schriftkunstler (a writing artist). His calligraphy pieces are fundamentally abstract, however, they ascribe heavily to the structure of printed text and conceptual art. Brennan’s current work uses the basic structure of the Roman alphabet to create wildly complex visual pieces that possess radical semantic content; however that content is not always available to the viewer’s due to their extreme abstraction and tightly organized composition. Brennan’s calligraphy pieces are a balance between grace and aggression, formalist techniques and unbridled appropriation of social structures and consumer society. They are, in essence, a perfect representation of contemporary society’s relationship with classic forms of art – conscious but distant, respectful but avant-gard.
