Brandon David Henrie

Unleashed from figurative constraints, abstract painting creates a space in which the application of scientific method and symbolic interpretation can intersect and collide. Emphasis shifts from image recognition to paint application, selected materials, and the support structure. I employ metaphorical devices that aim to expose the fallacy of “the true,” or “the eternal.” The subversion of symbol-laden materials such as gold leaf and printers’ ink grounds my work in a contemporary conversation about the decay of faith in hierarchy and institutions, in science and technology, in human reason, itself. For the nature of existence is unreasoning, arbitrary, and cyclical – the very embodiment of the old, unstoppable enemy, the Leviathan of Hebrew myth or the Fenrir of Norse legend.

My studio practice includes the systematic alteration of pigments and their binding agents through over saturation, incineration (with and without accelerants), oxidation, and burial. This approach produces patterns and textures intended to exploit the concept of pareidolia -- the imposition or projection of meaning upon arbitrary arrangement or events. The desire to contain the forces of chaos and subject them to a systematic and organized interpretat...

University of North Carolina at Charlotte Bachelor of Fine Art.

2021 CONGREGATE (Solo) Gettys Art Center, Rock Hill, SC.
2016 Once More with Feeling (Group) Student Union Gallery, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC.
2016 SHOWDOWN 5 (Group) Hart + Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC. Selected from Regional pool of artists.
2015 Mis: (Group) Rowe Gallery, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC.
2015 {in}TANGIBLE (Group) Rowe Gallery, University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
Charlotte, NC.
2015 The LGBT Show Linus Galleries, Los Angeles, CA. (Selected form international pool of artists.)
2015 Featured Artist at Orange Olive Gallery, 2824 N. Davidson Street, Charlotte, NC.
2015 SHOWDOWN 4 Hart + Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
(Selected from Regional pool of artists.)
2014 The Imaginarium of R183 (Group) Rowe Gallery, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, Charlotte, NC.
2014 Persuasion (Group) Rowe Gallery, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte,
NC.
2014 Layers IV (Group) Getty's Art Center, Loading Dock Gallery, Rock Hill, SC.
2014 Panorama (Group) Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, NC.
2014 Direct-In-Direct (Group) Rowe Gal...