C. VANCE BRAND, PSA

C. VANCE BRAND, PSA

      C. Vance Brand, a premier coup* painter, is an accomplished American Impressionist. An award winning artist, he has been recognized for his pastels by induction into the Pastel Society Of America.

      Though he paints captivating figurative work, his primary genre is colorful landscapes produced in oils, pastels, and encaustics.

      A graduate of Ohio State, Brand also studied with The Art Students League of New York and painted at The Johnson Studio In Vermont. Since he began his art career in 1980, Brand’s paintings have been featured in more than sixty one-man and group exhibitions. A selection of these exhibitions include the following:

           The Pastel Society Of America, New York, New York
           The Paul Mellon Center, Wallingford, Connecticut
           Museum Of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
           Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, California
           Disney World, Orlando, Florida
           Foxhall Gallery, Washington, D.C.
           Bondstreet Gallery, Naples, Florida
           The Ohio State Faculty Club, Columbus, Ohio
           The Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Ohio

      His paintings, which were featured in “Veranda” Magazine, “Today” Newspaper and “The Artist Of Florida” Magazine, are collected by private and corporate clients throughout the United States.

*Premier coup painting (also known as alla prima or direct painting) “refers to a method by which the artist applies each stroke of paint to the canvas with the intention of letting it stand in the picture as part of the final statement” with “no retouching or overpainting after the first layer of paint has dried.” (See The Painter's Guide to Studio Methods and Materials; Kay, Reed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983, pp. 127-129)