Don Bracken

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Looking East

I just finished Looking East. It is 80''x162'', clay and acrylic on canvas on panels 80''x18''.It is a view of the East River as seen from my former studio in the World Trade Center

Damascus Road 19''x 56'' in this picture. I plan making much larger . The concept is the visualization of destruction that began in Damascus which has metastasized in much of the middle east through the motif of the World Trade Center which is where all the craziness began.

Memorial Windows

This is a proposal project for a 911 Memorial installed in a field using clay panels from several piecies that are the same size as the windows that were in the World Trade Center . The lay out for the panels is based on the foot print of the twin towers .

Summer Photos of Calligraphy Reclining and Calligraphy In Space #2

Calligraphy Reclining has become a favorite perch for cardinals and a source or nest material for three cedar waxwings

I made Calligraphy in Space #2 this spring.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Solo Art Show at Lionheart Gallery, Pound Ridge , NY until March 1st

This is the way the show looks in the gallery going counter clockwise.

Fireflies in a grey Fog,a/c, 60'' x 46'', Frozen Moments #2

Wind Over Water #2, 80''x54'', Invasive Species, Frozen Moment #2

Forest Doors, Jade Memories, Wings Over Water 1&2

Frog Love #2, a/c,72''x72'', Frozen Moments #3

Nocturnal Frog Love, 60''x46'', Tutu, 40''x60'', Ancestors Shadows 1&2 40''x30''

Fall in Red, a/c, 50''x40''

Untitled hanging sculpture, Late Summer Evening, 40''x30''

Road Through Damascus 1&2, 40''x18'', acrylic and clay on canvas on panel

Sphere1, 24'' in diameter

Sphere 2, 24'' in diameter

Monday, January 26, 2015

It Takes a Village

This work is currently installed at Norwalk Community College in Ct. It Takes a Village is its centerpiece and consists of a hanging vine and ceramic houses in sand. This piece was originally conceived 5 years ago by my good friend artist and educator Denise Minnerly. With the idea of doing a piece about place and where we live, she went into schools, homeless shelters, and mental institutions with clay and asked participants to make their idea of home. Concurrently, I had been working with beaver sticks and vines on pieces about the interconnectedness of nature and man. We joined forced on this project and made the vine sculpture for It takes a Village together.

The long clay and acrylic piece behind It Takes a Village is Earth Variations (reconfigured). Originally done as a 90" x 160" rectangle--it is 12 separate panels--is reconfigured for the space as 40" x 360". The vine piece Au Privave is created from a single vine I found in the CT woodlands. The last piece, Gumbo Variations, is 40" x 80".

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Frozen Moments

This a piece, Frozen Moments is made out of leaves , fake leaves, bark wire acrylic an fishing line that was in a show that ended March 8th Five Points Gallery in Torrington , Ct