Artist

Brian Kershisnik

Brian Kershisnik lives with his wife, Suzanne, and three children in Kanosh, Utah. The son of a petroleum geologist, he grew up in Angola, Thailand, Texas, and Pakistan. After serving a mission in Denmark, he took a bachelor’s degree in painting at BYU and a graduate degree in printmaking at the University of Texas in Austin. His paintings have been featured at numerous solo and group exhibitions, and images of them have been reproduced in numerous books and catalogs. Kershisnik has himself created a notable anthology of his own paintings, Painting from Life, published in 2002 by Guild Publishing of Madison, Wisconsin.

Two People

19″ X 15″, oil on paper, 1989

Tall Dog

13″ X 10″, drawing, 1990

Abram in the House of His Fathers

19″ X 15″, oil on paper, 1989

A Fire

19″ X 15″, oil on paper, 1990

A Man Unaware of an Angel Visiting

14″ X 11″, lithograph, 1989

Just Before the Annunciation

14″ X 11″, lithograph, 1989

Just Before the Annunciation

19″ X 15″, oil on paper, 1989

Two Men Walking, Walking

14″ X 11″, lithograph, 1989

Dog

9″ X 6″, transfer print, 1990

Still Life with a Confused Servant

19″ X 15″, lithograph, 1989

Swimmers

19″ X 15″, oil on paper, 1990

Woman with Infant Flying

oil on canvas, 138 x 108 inches, 2007

Singing Madonna and Child

oil on panel, 24 x 20 inches, 2007

William Tell’s Dog

oil on panel, 9 x 6 inches, 2007

Jumping Over Two Snakes

oil on panel, 24 x 30 inches, 2007

Gardening in the Rain

oil on canvas, 84 x 40 inches, 2007

Dancing on a Very Small Island

oil on canvas, 66 x 78 inches, 2007

Fall Coming like Three Sisters

oil on canvas, 76 x 48 inches, 2006. Courtesy Val and Alice Hemming