My new sculpture installation, Seahorses are fish. will be on display in The Whistler’s Window Gallery for the months of May and June. The Whistler is my favorite cocktail bar in Chicago and I’ve always loved how they use the window space so I’m very pleased to have my work on display there.
If you follow me on Instagram you’ve had some sneak peaks but if you want to see the final piece, there will be an opening reception on Thursday, May 2 from 6:30–9:30pm. Come have a drink with me!
Seahorses are fish. Installation by Kendall Bruns The Whistler Storefront Gallery
2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
May–June 2013
Opening Reception:
Thursday, May 2, 2013
6:30–9:30pm
If you take any pictures please use the #seahorsesarefish hashtag!
I’m happy to have six sculptures on view in the Pearlman Gallery at the Art Academy of Cincinnati as part of their Sculpture Alumni Exhibition.
Lucky and Zonk (previously exhibited at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore) are joined by a few of my smaller sculptures, a wall piece that I installed a few weeks ago and my screen printed Happy/Sad Pepperoni T-shirts. Other artists in the exhibition include Voss Finn, Jeff Casto, Lisa Merida-Paytes, Carla Johnson and Zach Rawe.
The exhibition is open now and runs through December 14, 2012. There will be a Final Friday Artist Reception on November 30, 2012 from 5–8pm. I will be there selling Happy/Sad Pepperoni T-shirts.
I’m going to have some large sculptures on view at The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore from February 11–March 6, 2011.
The Contemporary Museum is doing a monthly series of changing exhibitions on view in its storefront exhibition space titled “New View.” I’m the third artist participating in the series.
I will also be the guest artist at The Contemporary Museum’s Contemporary Café series, talking about my work at 9:30am on Sunday, February 13, 2011.
My work will feature two characters I’ve designed, Lucky and Zonk.
Image Comics’ The Infiniate Vacation #1 has sold out and is headed for a second printing to be released with an alternate cover on February 16, 2011.
The five issue series is written by Nick Spencer with art by Christian Ward.
I contributed four pages of photography to the first issue and here’s what some people have been saying about that:
“Another interesting technique is deployed, though. Photography. After five pages of the expected comic book art the visuals switch over to a style of live-action photography melded into a sequential progression of story. The scene is of an Infinite Vacation spokesman basically providing the exposition to explain the series’ high concept, but because of the visual switch up it reads not at all like usual, dry exposition. Instead the scene turns into this odd, yet appropriate, Steve Jobs riff which works to establish a tone of, “Hey! This will change your life!”. A sense of salesmanship, a sense that what this Infinite Vacation corporation holds will make your life better. It is an interesting tone, and the manner in which it is conveyed comes off as very effective because the shift from Ward’s art to photos is not jarring whatsoever.” - Image Addiction
“Bonus points go to photographer Kendall Bruns, whose photo panels depicting the smarmy pitchman of an in-story ad threaten to move right off the page. Rarely has the necessary act of story exposition been so unabashedly fun.” - Comics Bulletin
“I especially appreciated the Recall-esque commercial in the beginning that gave me an expositional roadmap without having two characters engaging in conversation simply because they know I’m listening.” – Ain’t it Cool News
“The entire sequence of the tutorial with the pictures is stunning” - Comic Book Bin
“Also a standout is the multimedia artwork in this issue by Kendall Bruns. It’s a shock when it shows up, but makes perfect sense given the premise, and I hope we see more of it down the road.” - MTV Geek
In a recent survey by the National Sleep Foundation, 23 percent of the people who were polled admitted to falling asleep while driving in the past year.
an estimated 24,000 people die each year in accidents caused directly or in part by falling asleep at the wheel.
We never know we’re sleeping while we’re asleep.
The first, and by far the most important, is that sleep erects a perceptual wall between the conscious mind and the outside world.
The second defining feature of normal sleep is that it is immediately reversible.
Dreams therefore represent “the royal road to knowledge of the part the unconscious plays in mental life,” wrote Freud.
I wrote this story when I was 7 or 8 years old, living in Florida. I remember my dad helped me print it out so that there was space for me to do the illustrations. I remember using some sort of reference for the dragon drawing but I have no idea what. I was really into dragons and my mom thinks the movie Pete’s Dragon (1977) might have had something to do with that.
My younger brother is named Jon so I guess that’s where I got that name from. I’m not really sure what a dragon catcher is.
The Art Academy of Cincinnati does an annual Minumental exhibition where all the artwork has to be 2 inches or smaller in all directions. I’ve been participating since I was a student and they also feature work by faculty, staff and alumni so I’ve been making little artwork around this time every year for quite a while now.
This year I have ten photographs in the exhibition which opens on February 19. All of the photos except for one are from 2009.
Every year the show features hundreds of pieces of art and most of them are very affordable so it’s a great time to see what different people are doing and support the artists.
All the excitement about the remastered Beatles albums got me thinking that this would be a good time to revisit The Beatles project I did in 2003.
I took The Beatles’ full-length albums released from 1963–1970* and compressed them in duration without modifying the pitch (sped up but they don’t sound like chipmunks) so that they could fit on a single cd and be experienced in one sitting. The result was a 72 minute cd that included 169 songs from 11 albums.
I’ve created two new pieces for ”LOL: A Decade of Antic Art” opening Friday, June 10, 2011 at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, MD.
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I wrote this story when I was 7 or 8 years old, living in Florida. I remember my dad helped me print it out so that there was space for me to do the illustrations. I remember using some sort of reference for the dragon drawing but I have no idea what. I was really into dragons and my mom thinks the movie Pete’s Dragon (1977) might have had something to do with that.
The Art Academy of Cincinnati does an annual Minumental exhibition where all the artwork has to be 2 inches or smaller in all directions. I’ve been participating since I was a student and they also feature work by faculty, staff and alumni so I’ve been making little artwork around this time every year for quite a while now.
