Brantly Sheffield
About the Artist
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Brantly Sheffield is a Dallas-based artist born October 18th, 1991. He grew up in Edmond Oklahoma. In 2010 he moved to Kansas City Missouri to attend the Kansas City Art Institute. He graduated in 2014 with a BFA in illustration. In 2012 he studied at the Studio Art College International in Florence Italy. He studied fresco painting and art history. Between 2013 and 2017 Brantly was represented by The Late Show art gallery in Kansas City Missouri. In 2015 he moved to Boston Massecuites to attend Boston University’s MFA painting program. He earned his MFA in 2017. He shows his work nationally in curated and juried group exhibitions. Brantly has participated in studio residency programs such as the Cedars Union incubator for the arts. He is currently represented by RO2 gallery in Dallas Texas
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Artist Statement
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My paintings and drawings are portraits of people in familiar social settings that fluctuate between memorable to forgettable. I use paint to create an access point to a sense of universal familial bonds through saturated fields of color and geometric patterning that are indicative of familiar textures. The subjects are personal. They range from the people I know, to memorable events, and forgotten moments. Painting helps bridge the gap between the extremely personal and the universally familiar through the history of art. It makes you apart of its space. As if you could know subject. Painting allows me to structure information in my own way through fields of color. I break down the subject into geometric forms through line, then I use saturated fields of color to create a geometric pattern that is indicative of the anatomy of the drawing and my memory of the moment in response to the material that guide how I delineate space. I believe that the totality of the materials creates an access point to a sense of universal familial bonds specific to each painting.
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