Art Bio and Statement

The artwork has an emphasis upon distortion of the human form resembling the struggle and distress for freedom. I am driven to portray the racial and social injustice of our true history,  to unravel caged emotions and the anguish for change.

At times , there are scenes of city sings, debris, cracked walls, elements of urban graffiti to aspire the decadence of our modern society, the naked emotions of the poets, the cry of tribal music that sheds the light of our own broken self.

I create images that suggest and fulminate movement: compositions that can be viewed in all angles as a visual counterpoint like Jazz, music in its quest for interchangeability and interactions.

In other series, there are compositions of bodies intertwined in an erotic and sexual connection that evokes a salvation through our feelings and physical union. 

I intent to break, mix the styles, movements and technique to align the subject of each artwork with a unique imaginary and message. To be uncategorized or de-categorize a signature style freed from any link of tradition and identification but for the artwork itself to be independent with its own meaning. 

Ivan Brens is a self-taught painter born in the Dominican Republic where as a child,  he started his artistic career. He studied printmaking and photography in the University of Mass. and sculpture in Mass. College of Art in Boston, U.S.A.