Brandon Kuehn Art

Ice Fishing

2012-02-06T09:19:00.000-08:00

The extra warm winter has put me into a mind of the things we are sort of missing in Lake Wobegon.... These Catherine Opie inspired paintings are ice houses, which are noticeably absent from frozen lakes this winter. These are all 9 x 9 x 3 inches.

Forgive. New series 1-6

2011-10-10T09:26:00.000-07:00

A new bird series as worked from some crazy YouTube videos. Somewhere in Europe....

Sighting Outside Kyoto #4

2011-09-08T13:40:00.000-07:00

Little Cedar Spirit Tree (The Burning Bush)

2011-09-08T12:53:00.000-07:00

Otmoor Bird Series finished (6 Total)

2011-06-21T11:47:00.001-07:00

New Paintings at "Waters of Superior"

2011-05-20T12:17:00.000-07:00

Northern Lights Over the Sawtooth Mountains.

Otmoor Birds #2

Otmoor Birds #1

These are all 40 x 30. Stop into the gallery in Canal Park, in Duluth, MN to view or visit www.watersofsuperior.com.

New Artist Interview online

2011-04-11T11:31:00.001-07:00

Take a look. I was interviewed for a Minneapolis-based artist website!

http://www.local-artist-interviews.com/2011/04/brandon-kuehn-painter.html

Thesis Exhibition

2011-02-22T06:51:00.001-08:00

I'm very happy to announce that in January of 2011, I successfully defended my thesis and earned my MFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. So many wonderful people at AIB to thank so I won't list them all here, but it was an amazing experience.

These three paintings (48 x 36 inches) featuring clouds moving through the forest outside of Kyoto are based on an obscure myth. First documented in the "Terrific Register of Crimes, Judgement, Providence, & Calamity" written in 1825, this book documents a report from the island of Malta in 1757 in which a black cloud that changes color and producing a "dreadful noise" descends on the harbor and carries off parts of an English ship. Similar reports to this appear in Edinburgh in 1904 and Western China in 1945.

I felt these clouds were uncanny, in the spirit of Sigmund Freud's essay of the same name from 1919. Is this a natural phenomenon? Do these clouds move of their own volition? Should we be afraid? I'll let you decide...

Jeffrey says I have to keep up the blog...

2010-03-25T13:38:00.000-07:00

This painting is 36 x 20. It's a larger version of a painting I did for the 3rd residency. One I felt didn't get the attention it deserved. It's slow and tedious, but Tony Apesos said, "wow, you still don't know how to paint a field do you," so I'd like another crack at a crit with him...

I am starting 3 large paintings I intend to be my thesis show. They will be 3 large bamboo paintings with clouds. 30 x 40. That should fill up my allotted space for the thesis show. Also, working on my rough draft for the thesis. I ok'd working with previous mentor David Feinberg for another go round this fall. This seems slightly audacious (starting the work and the thesis), but then again it appears to me that as far as art school goes, good crits and work favor the bold and the brash.

Attended the Lucy Lippard talk at the University of Minnesota last month. Also, have been in touch with art historian and paranormal investigator Adrian Lee, Ph D. I am looking to curate a show of artwork about the paranormal in Minneapolis some time in 2011.