Kelsey Brennan
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Kelsey Brennan is a sculptor and installation artist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent work focuses on creating and manipulating architectural spaces that distort sensory perception in the viewer.She graduated from Reed College in May 2010 with a B.A. in Studio Art.Call 650.823.4995 / kelseybbrennan_gmail.com
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Resisting Apprehension: Remapping Memory
Advisor: Geraldine OndrizekOrals Board: Geraldine Ondrizek, Akihiko Miyoshi, Robert Slifkin, Lena LencekAbstract: This thesis is an investigation of works of art that define themselves through a spatial relation with the viewer's body, provoking a phenomenological response. My own body of work for the project builds on the premise outlined in the written portion of my thesis in three, architectually-scaled installations. Art works that consciously influence bodily awareness between viewer and sculpture first emerge with 1960's minimalist sculptors such as Robert Morris, Carl Andre, and Bruce Nauman. Installation artists Mary Miss and Alice Aycock expand upon their work by using the time it takes a viewer to traverse a structure or maze to promote a phenomenological reactions. Anish Kapoor and Lygia Pape develop this further, prompting a phenomenological experience in the viewer though the use of optical effects to mimic natural phenomena. Though these artists all expand upon the preceding generation's contribution to the art world, all of their work identifies with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's notion of the world as body, thereby privileging the viewer as integral to the art-making process. The philosophical and historical study of these works guides my own art-making process, in which I attempt to draw from the sensorial aspect of memory. In this case, I call upon memorys of surfing and being in water as a means of creating three installations that provoke a similar phenomenological response in a viewer. The three installations presented include: 'la Moire', a maze-like structure that utilizes the moiré effect in order the disorient the viewer in a manner similar to that of being in turbulent water; 'Balance Board', a kinetic platform that moves in relation to the viewer's movements, destabilizing the floor and creating an effect similar to being in a dock; 'Waddell Before Dawn', a wall-mounted piece that simulates the optical quality of the ocean at night.
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Stephen Atkinson Architecture
Manufactured model and worked on design submission during internship that received an honorable mention in Sunset Magazine's Best Western Home Awards
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