Brian Kershisnik
Night's Impossible Burden
"For an artist, a painting is like a sentence in a novel that you're writing your whole life."
"If I am not careful about how much I reveal my own intentions, I run the danger of closing the door on what the painting can mean to you or anyone else. What a viewer takes away is every bit as legitimate as what I intended, possibly more legitimate than what I intended."
Brian depicts women as very capable and thoughtful and going about engaged in great work. He paints women in real situations, and there's not a sense of putting them on a pedestal where they're not given anything to do, but rather embracing women in lots of different capacities.
Brian always paints a kind of heaven that is close, that is near, that wants to intervene or help or point you in a direction. It doesn't become too weighty because of the hope that is also there and the angels that want to intervene and assist and aid and comfort.
(Michael R. Walker, "Everyday Heaven," Y Magazine, Winter 2025)
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