Brett Eberhardt’s painted interiors are inhabited by singular objects and are vacant of human presence save the reminders in the painted surfaces, worn floor boards or a work table softened by use. Eberhardt’s humble interiors, lushly described in oil paint, depict the well-loved surfaces of his studio and home in a tender, devout manner.
Brett Eberhardt earned his MFA at Syracuse University and his BFA at Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI. Among his awards and honors are 2017 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2016 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, 2016 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Merit Award Fellowship in Painting, 2014 Kress Grant to attend the Summer Teacher's Institute for Technical Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY, 2008 Summer Stipend Grant, Western Illinois University Foundation and the Office of Special Projects, 2004 Visual and Performing Arts Summer Fellowship, Syracuse University2021 12th Annual Manifest Prize, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2016 Merit Award, Jurors: Mark Steven Greenfield, Ramone Muñoz and Velda Ishizaki, LA Artcore 2nd Annual Competition & Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, 2015 Art Olympia International Competition 2015 Finalist, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting Finalist, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY, 2014 Juror’s Award, Juror Jenny Gheith, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 9th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2013 Best of Show, Juror Don Kimes, A Sense of Place 2013, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA, 2013 First Place Award, 3rd International Painting Annual, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH.