Brendan Sullivan's portfolio

About Brendan

Artist and musician born in South Florida, graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture in 2009. Cofounded Open Space, a local gallery and artists space, in the summer of 2009 and has participated in group shows in Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston and several cities in Florida. Performs in local bands Weekends, Soft Cat, Dan Ivan/Dirt Makeup, Slipper and under his own name, Brendan Sullivan.

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Temporary Monuments

These works were made in an effort to bring my art practice out of a studio context. The work consisted of making temporary reminders and documenting them before their inevitable disappearance. They were in part made to help me become more aware of my time and place and create a way for me to be in the world.

"Here" 2007
"Untitled (Times)"
"Untitled (Directions)"
"Here" 2008
"Now" 2008
"Here" 2009

Important Moment Creation Kit

This work was an effort to use the cinematic cues of what makes an important and meaningful moment (lights, music, human interaction ect) and bring it into a real life interaction.

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Performance Documentation
IMPORTANT MOMENT CREATION KIT

Performance Documentation

Selected Paintings/Sculptures

"Last Rites"

"Last Rites" Shown in "Where the Sun Don't Shine" Nudashank Gallery Baltimore, MD July 2009
"SO MUCH HAS ALREADY HAPPENED"

"SO MUCH HAS ALREADY HAPPENED" Feeble Protest sign
"Headstone"
"Untitled"

"Untitled (after 'Bogus Revolution Blues')" Shown as part of "Feeble Intimacy" LVL3 Gallery Chicago, IL August 2010
"Feeble Protest#2"

Imagined Histories

"Imagined Histories" is an ongoing project in which photos are taken of strangers, usually from long distances away, and short fictional narratives are written based on the photographs.
The stories are written as short melodramas to give a fictional weight and new importance to the possibly mundane everyday situations.

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"Imagined Histories" page spread 7
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Performance Pieces

This Is How... - Performance Still 3

Presented at the BBOx at The Maryland Institute College of Art Fall 2008
This Is How... - Performance Still 2

Presented at the BBOx at The Maryland Institute College of Art Fall 2008
This Is How... - Performance Still 1

Presented at the BBOx at The Maryland Institute College of Art Fall 2008
This Is How We Will Become More Real To Eachother

"This Is How We Will Become More Real To Eachother" Fall 2008 A performance about expectation, and strangeness of performing for others. fake, signs, performance piece Presented at the BBOx at The Maryland Institute College of Art
See/Saw.. - Performance Still 4

"See/Saw : A Performance About Expectation and the Strangeness of Wanting To Perform For Others" Presented Spring of 2010 at Extra Extra Gallery in Philadelphia, PA as part of their exhibition "Failure To Show"
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See/Saw.. - Performance Still 3

"See/Saw : A Performance About Expectation and the Strangeness of Wanting To Perform For Others" Presented Spring of 2010 at Extra Extra Gallery in Philadelphia, PA as part of their exhibition "Failure To Show"
See/Saw.. - Performance Still 2

"See/Saw : A Performance About Expectation and the Strangeness of Wanting To Perform For Others" Presented Spring of 2010 at Extra Extra Gallery in Philadelphia, PA as part of their exhibition "Failure To Show"
See/Saw.. - Performance Still 1

"See/Saw : A Performance About Expectation and the Strangeness of Wanting To Perform For Others" Presented Spring of 2010 at Extra Extra Gallery in Philadelphia, PA as part of their exhibition "Failure To Show"
See/Saw : A Performance About Expectation

"See/Saw : A Performance About Expectation and the Strangeness of Wanting To Perform For Others" Presented Spring of 2010 at Extra Extra Gallery in Philadelphia, PA as part of their exhibition "Failure To Show"

Works on Paper (2008 - 2012)

"Potential Statements To Make"

"Potential Statments To Make" Shown in "Feeble Intimacy" LVL3 Gallery Chicago, IL August 2010
"Potential Statements To Make: Romance Stories"
"Untitled (Shoreline Dumps the Ocean)"
"Potential Statements To Make: A Fiction"
"Feeble Protest Sign"

A sketch for protest sign sculpture
"Untitled (We)"
"Self Titled"

"Self Titled" Shown in "Feeble Intimacy" LVL3 Gallery Chicago, IL August 2010
"Untitled"

"Untitled (How Long...)" Shown in "Feeble Intimacy" LVL3 Gallery Chicago, IL August 2010
Simple - 2011

"Simple/Stupid" 2011 Shown In "Is This All That All This Is?" The Johanna Houston, TX February 2012
A Man With A Sad Face - 2011

"A Man With A Sad Face" Shown in "Memento Maury" City Arts Gallery October 2011

"I Am Trying To Make Something Happen"

"Potential Statements To Make: I am Trying To Make Something Happen"
A feeble protest
South Florida winter, January 2009

Potential Statements To Make
Potential Statements To Make

A Feeble Protest

"Runnin' Down A Dream"

"RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM' is a written work/visual essay concerning a fictitious short film of the same name. The piece recounts the unmade film to the reader, concerning the practice of trying to make a "successful piece" , acknowledging
the eternal to and from , the feeling of chasing something down only to turn back
back right from where you came.

Published in Issue 6 of Schematic Quarterly
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Runnin' Down A Dream - Text

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Runnin' Down A Dream - Hardcopy of Issue 6 - Schematic Quarterly

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Runnin' Down A Dream - Detail 4

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Runnin' Down A Dream - Detail 3

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Runnin' Down A Dream - Detail 2

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Runnin' Down A Dream - Detail 1

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Selected Video Works

LOVE LIFE - Still 2
LOVE LIFE - Still 1
LOVE LIFE - 2008
R AND R 2

"Routines and Rituals" 2nd in a series of 8 video loops 2009
R AND R 3

"Routines and Rituals" 3rd in a series of 8 video loops 2009
Untitled - Still 1
Untitled

This video short was made in conjunction with the "Exquisite Corpse Video Project" produced by the Baltimore based publication "Real Guts". [Statement about the project from "Real Guts"] : "For this issue we have taken the Surrealist drawing game known as the "exquisite corpse" and applied it to a video format. Nine different artists were invited to participate, each responding to the last 30 seconds of the previous artists' work. We selected one actor to function as a constant throughout the entire project, allowing each artist to incorporate him into their videos however they saw fit." "Exquisite Corpse Video Project" trailer can be found here: vimeo.com/40896503 realgutspresents.tumblr.com/
One Idiot Talking - Still 2
One Idiot Talking - Still 1
ONE IDIOT TALKING - (Excerpt - 2013)

"One Idiot Talking" is an experimental, semi-autobiographical short that exists between the mundane day to day and the surreal space within the mind of an unnamed, strained "20-something" protagonist. An impressionistic sketch of amusement and bewilderment, of the role of the performer and reality of the day-job worker. Shot entirely on VHS tape, "One Idiot Talking" is a surreal home video, a pseudo self-portrait, reenacting moments both real and imagined. Directed, edited and shot in Baltimore city by Brendan Sullivan. 2012 -2013 (*EXCERPT - Full running Time 00:09:17)