The Uncanny Clouds /
Brendan O’Callaghan
1.23.23
- 2.3.23
The Uncanny Clouds explore storm clouds’ presence in the sky and how their composition can create an atmosphere of tension, eeriness, and mystery within a familiar landscape. The clouds provide a space for viewers to interpret what may be lurking inside the strange cloud formation and its purpose in the landscape
Exhibition Statement:
Video by Brendan O’Callaghan
Brendan O’Callaghan, Moment of The Awakening, Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”, 2022
Detail: Brendan O’Callaghan, Moment of The Awakening, Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”, 2022.
Brendan O’Callaghan, Searching for A Place to Ground Myself, oil on canvas, 16 x 20”, 2022.
Detail: Searching for A Place to Ground Myself, oil on canvas, 16 x 20”, 2022.
Brendan O’Callaghan, A Storm Is Brewing, Oil on canvas, 20” x 30”, 2021.
Brendan O’Callaghan, Rupture into The Abyss, Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”, 2022.
Brendan O’Callaghan, Lurking, oil on canvas, 20 x 30”, 2022.
Brendan O’Callaghan, We Build Them Just to Watch Them Fall, Oil on canvas, 18” x 36”, 2022.
Brendan O’Callaghan, Strange Clouds, Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”, 2021.
Detail: Strange Clouds, Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”, 2021.
Brendan O’Callaghan, A Storm Is Brewing, Oil on canvas, 20” x 30”, 2021.
Brendan O'Callaghan, Evolving, oil on canvas, 20 x 30”, 2022.
Brendan O’Callaghan, The Troubled Cloud, Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”, 2022.
Brendan O’Callaghan is a multidisciplinary artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a major in Media Arts from the Alberta University of the Arts and has gained a Diploma in Video Production from the Toronto Film School. His post-secondary studies inspired a fascination for creating short films of the psychological horror genre. Brendan utilized oil paintings to explore suspense themes, culminating in highly saturated colours blended to create unexpected cloud scenes in a backdrop of nature. He uses multiple-layer paint techniques to create hyper realistic cloud/landscape oil paintings to construct a sense of uncertainty, unease, mystery, and tension.
Artist Statement:
