CV
Education:
MS Elementary Education, CCNY 1991
BA Art History, Columbia University 1982
Occupation:
Teacher, drawing & painting; Ronald Edmonds Learning Center, Brooklyn, NY 2000-2015
Teacher, administrator; JHS 82, Bronx, NY 1987-2000
Solo and 2-Person Exhibits:
The World(s) Beneath our Feet; Cape Cod National Seashore Visitor Center, Eastham, MA 2023
Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet, MA (with Marilyn Banner) 2023
Inside Out; Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2022
Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet, MA (with Elise Kaufman) 2021
Celebrate Being Alive (Remember Those who are Not); Gowanus Boathouse, Brooklyn, NY (with Frank Sabatte) 2021
Space in a Box (virtual exhibit); offmaingallery.com 2020
Edge of the Continent/Center of the World; Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2020
Stars Ocean Mother Womb; Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, New York, NY 2019
Generations of Leaves; Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, MA 2019
Epilogues; Narthex Gallery, Saint Peters Church, New York, NY 2016
Kendall Art Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2011
Elegies; Brooklyn Central Library, Brooklyn, NY 2011
The Lyrical Shoreline; Kendall Art Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2010
This is My Body; Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2010*
River Bank Lofts Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009
Red Horse Café, Brooklyn, NY 2009
*exhibit and artist talk, part of The Church of Monika series
Recent Group Exhibits:
DepArtures Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA 2024
Addition/Subtraction Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, NY 2024
Provincetown Art Association & Museum (juried members’ exhibit) 2023
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum 2023
Many Views Wellfleet Preservation Hall, Wellfleet, MA 2022
Transparent Translucent Opaque Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA 2022
Footnote Project Space, Brooklyn, NY 2021
Insight Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA 2021
Beach Elements Rockaway Artists Alliance, Queens, NY 2019
Left Bank Gallery, Orleans, MA 2019
JuxtaPositions The Painting Center, New York, NY 2018
Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2018
Beauty Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York 2016
Opus Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY 2016
Liberalis Novella Gallery, New York 2014
Grace Kreft Gallery, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI 2013
Contemporary Cape Cod Artists Tao Water Art Gallery, Barnstable, MA 2013
Contemporary Cape Cod Artists Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA 2013
1).All of the Above Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York 2013
GoBrooklyn open studio arr. By Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 2012
Frenzy into Folly Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York 2012
Publications:
”Wellfleet-based artist Mark Brennan at the Salt Pond Visitors Center” Cape Cod Times Nov. 7, 2023
"Mark Brennan at Off Main Gallery" Provincetown Independent June 16, 2022
"Mark Brennan Seascapes Honor Those Lost at Sea" Provincetown Independent Oct. 22, 2020
Keller, Saskia Maxwell "Mark Brennan Paints a Monumental Watercolor" Provincetown Independent Aug. 27, 2020
"Exhibit shows one long piece of art" Cape Cod Times Aug. 19, 2020
"64-foot-long watercolor arrives in Wellfleet" Wicked Local-Truro Aug. 10, 2020
Whitney Daniels, Kristen “Islamic art exhibit brings Muslim voice, symbols to a Catholic church” NCR Oct. 24, 2016
Forman, Deborah Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Land and Sea Schiffer Press 2013
Speas, Zoe V. “Sacred Space: Art in Non-Neutral Environments” Artspace Fall 2013
Other:
Curator: EnvironMentality (with N. Gesimondo & E. Jiaju Lee)
Gertrude G. White Gallery, Greenwich, CT 2024
Curator: Respect! (with Michael Berube)
Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, NY 2017
Curator: Brothers and Sisters: Islamic Art/Christian Space
Church of St. Paul the Apostle 2016