Linda Brenner

Linda Brenner (Certificate/BFA)

Linda Brenner: Paulownia ProjectPhiladelphia International Airport - Art & Exhibitions
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Linda Brenner: Paulownia Project
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Philadelphia artist Linda Brenner creates sculpture from fallen tree trunks because they were aged, diseased, damaged, or cleared for land development.The salvaged trees are carved by Brenner and transformed into sculpture inspired by the places where they once grew.

In 2005, Brenner was fortunate to receive some very prized trees cut down as a result of age and because of a historic restoration project underway at Logan Circle, an urban park situated in the heart of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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Brenner salvaged portions of the original trees and created three carvings to commemorate their original existence while giving them new life as sculpture.Brenner's sculptural forms were inspired by the geometry of Gréber's plan and the theme of Philadelphia's three principal waterways-the Delaware River, Schuylkill River, and Wissahickon Creek-the same rivers featured in Calder's fountain.Like the restoration project that allows Logan Circle to flourish into the future, Brenner has created a poetic tribute to the 12 original trees that graced the fountain for more than 80 years.

Linda Brenner

B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 1962.Tyler School of Fine Arts 1963.Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Award 1999.Artist Residency: The Hambridge Center 1998-9.

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Linda Brenner: Ghost Cats
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This is the first installation project by Linda Brenner and is dedicated to the memory of Dan McCloud.
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Linda Brenner received a BFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School is Design and attended the University of Pennsylvania and Tyler School of Art.She is the recipient of a Leeway Foundation WOO award and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts SOS grant.Linda currently teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and works on collaborative projects making architectural models besides maintaining a sculpture studio in Philadelphia.

Linda Brenner
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Linda Brenner: Ghost Cats
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This is the first installation project by Linda Brenner and is dedicated to the memory of Dan McCloud.
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Linda Brenner received a BFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School is Design and attended the University of Pennsylvania and Tyler School of Art.She is the recipient of a Leeway Foundation WOO award and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts SOS grant.Linda currently teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and works on collaborative projects making the architectural models besides maintaining a sculpture studio in Philadelphia.

Artist: Linda Brenner: Ghost Cats
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This is the first installation project by Linda Brenner and is dedicated to the memory of Dan McCloud.
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Linda Brenner received a BFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School is Design and attended the University of Pennsylvania and Tyler School of Art.She is the recipient of a Leeway Foundation WOO award and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts SOS grant.Linda currently teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and works on collaborative projects making architectural models besides maintaining a sculpture studio in Philadelphia.

As the trees neared the end of their natural lifespan, Philadelphia artist Linda Brenner decided to salvage them rather than see them discarded or processed after the park's renovation.

"We're all interested in nature and how things grow," says Brenner."Most art comes from nature."

In her quest to commemorate the twelve original empress trees, Brenner found inspiration in two sources.
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"In nature, there is a formal order of things," observes Brenner, who teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Likewise, the flowing form of Brenner's sculpture evokes the idea of the region's three waterways.

Linda Brenner: Paulownia Project is located in Philadelphia International Airport's Terminal C. It will be on display until June.

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