“Brannon is best known for his elegant letterpress prints, which the artist contrarily, or confidently, makes in editions of one. These are characterized by simple graphic images of lobsters, martini glasses, cigarettes, bottles of wine – ‘adult pacifiers’, as Tumlir puts it – and fruit bowls, steak knives, chessboards – ‘the heraldry of the metropolitan subject’. The prints look neat, polite and New Yorker-ish, though the images are accompanied by despairing, often passive-aggressive fragments of text that mimic the effect of an advertisement or a movie poster: ‘This year tell her you love her all over again. With a grab bag of diamonds. With mouthfuls of caviar.’ Or: ‘You keep the art. It’s all shit anyway. I’ll take the house.’” – Laura McLean-Ferris, ArtReview
Brannon studied at the University of California graduating with a BA in 1995, and completed his MFA in 1999 at Columbia University in New York. His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums including Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Badischer Kunstverein in Germany, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and MAK in Vienna. He is represented by David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles and Office Baroque in Brussels, Belgium.
Brannon will be giving studio visits with Cole Sayer and Bryan Jabs.
Brannon studied at the University of California graduating with a BA in 1995, and completed his MFA in 1999 at Columbia University in New York. His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums including Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Badischer Kunstverein in Germany, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and MAK in Vienna. He is represented by David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles and Office Baroque in Brussels, Belgium.
Brannon will be giving studio visits with Cole Sayer and Bryan Jabs.
