Biography

 

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Eric Brennan is an artist and teacher in South Central Pennsylvania. By age 11 his artwork was displayed on billboards across the tri-state area. His work is currently featured on Artworks for Change” and has been featured in recent regional venues including, a solo exhibition at the Thought Lot (Shippensburg, PA), Art Works (Johnstown, PA), Dixon University Center (Harrisburg, PA), Manifest Gallery (Cincinatti, Ohio), and Kaufmann Gallery (Shippensburg, PA), to name a few. Brennan was recently the featured artist for Cumberland County’s largest outdoor art exhibit, Project Elevate. His work was also selected best of show of the Graduate Scholars Forum at Indiana University of PA. He received his BA in Art Education from Shippensburg University in 2011 and earned his MFA in Fine Arts from Indiana University of PA with a focus in drawing and painting in 2015. Brennan currently enjoys teaching at Greencastle Antrim in their newly developed STEAM Department, and after receiving an additional teaching certification, he now instructs courses in Engineering and Product Design.

 

Brennan’s thesis work depicts the power of humans to alter the natural landscape. He draws a visual connection between the denuded land and the human hand, creating topography with the semblance of skin, knuckles, fingers and palms. Brennan describes his work as a nod to Romanticism and its depictions of Mother Nature imposing her will on defenseless landscapes and their unfortunate inhabitants. In a new series of work, Brennan is exploring identity through a portraiture technique inspired by “Muir webs.”

(A Muir web is a visual mapping of the connections between species or habitats in an ecosystem.) This technique highlights the dual role of humans as a connected part of the ecosystem and as the steward of that ecosystem.