Prints by Brandon J. Do
onahue Williams Librrary Avon W
April 11
1‐May, 30, 22014 POLYCO
OPIES Brando
on J. Don
nahue is a vision
nary arti
ist, born
n April 2
25, 1985 in
Memphis Tn. He
e receive
ed his B.
.S. from TSU in 2
2009 and went to
receiv
ve his MF
FA in painting an
nd drawin
ng from U
UT-Knoxvi
ille in
2013. Brandon has been
n known locally
l
f
for his a
airbrushi
ing abili
ity
since age 14. He would
d paint t-shirts,
t
, canvase
es, mural
ls, body
art, and
a
other
r various
s objects
s as a ca
areer fro
om high s
school
throug
ghout college. Af
fter livi
ing and w
working i
in Brookl
lyn, NY f
for
a few months after
a
gra
aduate sc
chool, Br
randon ha
as a new interest
t
in the
e transce
endence of
o vernac
cular obj
jects thr
rough the
e use of
assemb
blage, pa
ainting, and most
t recentl
ly "vacuu
um- formi
ing."
Vacuum
m forming
g is an industria
al proces
ss and si
implified
d version
n
of the
ermoforming, wher
reby a sh
heet of P
Polystyre
ene plast
tic is
heated
d to a fo
orming te
emperatur
re, stret
tched ont
to a conv
vex or
concav
ve, single surfac
ce mold, and forc
ced again
nst the m
mold by a
vacuum
m. "This process helps me
e combine
e printma
aking, pa
ainting,
and re
elief scu
ulpture all
a
into one end product that I c
call
POLYCO
OPIES. There
T
is an excep
ptional q
quality t
to my pai
inting
process.” Airb
brushing enables me to wo
ork in la
arge and smallscale detail without
w
my
m tool physicall
p
ly touchi
ing the s
surface.
Layers of pain
nt evenly
y recoat the mate
erial wit
thout alt
tering it
ts
form.
Brando
on will be trraveling to
o Berlin, Ge
ermany thiss summer ffor a group
p show titleed ʺHeartla
andishʺ. He
e has studie
ed abroad iin Florencee, Italy at L
Lorenzo Di Medici 20007 and 2008
8. Mr. Don
nahue is an art professsor at Tenn
nessee Statee Universitty.