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A resident of Norman, Oklahoma for most of his life, Brandenburg graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1963. He has painted seriously for about 35 years and has shown his work or nearly 25 years. Brandenburg has written visual arts and theatre reviews as an arts correspondent for The Daily Oklahoman newspaper for over 30 years, for which he received a Governor’s Arts Award in 1997.
Other recognition includes a Know Your Neighbor Award from the Norman Arts and Humanities Council in 1997; one of two $1,000 Merit Awards in the 1996 Individual Artists of Oklahoma Mixed Media Exhibition, jurored by Oklahoma State University art faculty member Chris Ramsay, and a $250 Best of Show Award in the 1995 Paseo Fall Art Festival, jurored by (now retired) University of Oklahoma art faculty members George Bogart and Carol Beesley.
Brandenburg has had solo and two- or three-person shows at the Kirkpatrick Gallery for Oklahoma Artists at the Kirkpatrick Center in Oklahoma City in 1988 and 1998; at the Individual Artists of Oklahoma galleries in Oklahoma City in 1980, 1982, 1988 and was featured in a solo show at MAINsite Contemporary Art Gallery in Norman in May, 2001. He has also shown his work in numerous group shows in the Oklahoma City-Norman area as well as in Dallas, New York City, Joplin, Missouri, and Manhattan, Kansas, and has coordinated a life drawing group at Firehouse Art Center in Norman for about the past twenty years. Brandenburg considers all his work to be a celebration of nature and the human figure, but once removed and recycled by the artist’s imagination.
A poet and playwright as well as painter, Brandenburg has self-published 15 books of his poetry and edited a celebration of the life of his longtime companion, Margie Needham (1938-2000), to coincide with a retrospective exhibit of her art work following her death in March of 2000.
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