BRENDAN FERNANDES
Soft Touch I (In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia), 2024
Digitally printed cotton canvas, buckwheat shells
31 x 24 x 23 in.
Copyright The Artist
$ 14,000.00
Brendan Fernandes’ Soft Touch series is deeply inspired by the sculptural furniture of Scott Burton, particularly his granite and stone chairs and benches. Fernandes, however, responds to Burton’s legacy with...
Brendan Fernandes’ Soft Touch series is deeply inspired by the sculptural furniture of Scott Burton, particularly his granite and stone chairs and benches. Fernandes, however, responds to Burton’s legacy with a compelling inversion, turning hard into soft and rigidity into intimacy. Both Fernandes and Burton utilize their own chairs in their respective performance work, with the "Soft Touch" works appearing in Brendan Fernandes' "Duet" series.
Exhibitions
"Brendan Fernandes: Duet", Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC, 4 September - 11 October 2025“Soft/Cover,” The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA. 20 November 2024 - 17 August 2025.
“In Two,” Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO 6 September 2024–2 February 2025 (part of Scott Burton Shape Shift)
