Resides: Portland, OR

"At first glance, Brenden Clenaghen's wall constructions remind one of marzipan confections, or minimalist compositions. The reality of his work is a little more complicated.

His process, more akin to sculptural construction, is intriguing. Made from liquid plastic and acrylic coated with joint compound, Clenaghen's work shimmers like refined confections. Liquid dyes placed under the acrylic bleed through the surface coloring the layers on top. With the addition of linseed oil to the process, surface anomalies manifest themselves as cracklature, and sometimes like fine lined varicose veins. Beads are formed sometimes by the placement of fine dots in the liquid acrylic underpainting and accompanied by larger, pearl-sized dots of PVC Plasticol on top. The patterning of the dots on the surface of the work is not entirely meant to be mechanical patterning but more organic in nature. However, even nature adheres to fractal mathematics, and one can't help finding the organic patterns inherent in the works."

--ArtScape, February, 2002