ARTIST STATEMENT

Screen printing is often thought of as an exacting medium, built with stencils or photographic screens that contain sharp lines, hard edges and tight registration.  Lately, I’ve been creating images that do not appear to be screen prints.  By working directly on the screen with ink and a squeegee, I can freely explore the random interplay of transparent color on transparent color, creating an exciting visual with a painterly quality not usually seen in the screen print medium.  The result of this approach is a series of prints that belong together, but are uniquely different, in a variable edition of abstract expressionist works.

BIO

Art Brener has been a silkscreen printer for more than 50 years. His serigraphs feature a contemporary sense of design and a joyous and exuberant use of color.  His work ranges from the sharp and graphic to the loosely abstract.  All of his prints are hand-pulled.  Brener’s work has won awards in galleries and art centers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  His prints are in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hospital MD Anderson Cancer Center in Camden, New Jersey, as well as corporate and private collections locally, and as far away as Kansas and Oregon.