2008 essay by Ric Kasini Kadour

Ciaran Brennan makes art photography: “For most people, a picture… captures something that happened; it is a record. My pictures are a creation of the imagination, not something that happened,” he says.. Brennan stages and choreographs the world around him, takes multiple shots, reworks images, and produces photographs that embody the ideas he is trying to express. Brennan’s milieu is North American suburbia and particularly its people and its architecture. Brennan’s solo exhibition at Kasini House in December 2008 was the first significant presentation of his work.

The 28-page, full color, catalog is 7.5"x5.5" and contains fifteen photographs, an essay by Ric Kasini Kadour, and biographical information about the artist.

Ciaran Brennan is an engineer by trade, a scientist by education, and a philosopher by nature. Also a father and husband, Brennan began making art after taking a course in contemporary art photography at Burlington City Arts in 2005. He participated in the 2007 and 2008 editions of the Art’s Alive Festival of Fine Art as well as the Kasini House 10x10 in July 2007. His work was included in the Danforth Museum Annual Juried Members’ Show in Framingham, Massachusetts where he was awarded their First Place Award. He was also included in the New England Photographers Biennial Exhibition at the Danforth Museum. Brennan has a Ph.D in Physical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Essex Junction, Vermont.

DETAILS: 7.5" x 5.5" | saddle stitched | 28 pages | 15 photographs | Publisher: Kasini House Books | 2008