Fr. Brendan McAnerney, O.P.
Adjunct Professor of Theology
Residence/Office: 916.974-1134
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BA Boston University; MA Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
That which the word (Scripture) communicates by sound, the painting (icon) shows silently by representation~ St. Basil the Great
Fr. Brendan McAnerney, OP is a Dominican priest with faculties to serve as a Melkite-Greek Catholic priest. As a Dominican he has served parishes in California, Oregon and Washington. While in residence at St. George Melkite-Greek Catholic Church in Sacramento, CA he manages DominICON, a ministry of the “Western Dominican Province, to, “Expand the Appreciation of Holy Icons and the Traditions of the Eastern Churches,” through which he teaches icon painting, directs icon retreats and paints commissioned icons. In 2005 he recorded his first DVD for DominICON entitled, “Sacred Craft – An Introduction to the Art & Spirituality of Holy Icons.”
He received a BA in Art History from Boston University where he also worked on an Masters Degree. He earned a Master of Arts Degree in Religion and the Arts from the Dominican School, Berkeley.
He has painted since childhood, and continues to paint landscapes influenced by the Tonalists of his native New England and the early 20th century California painters of the Monterey artists’ colony. But after he studied icon painting with the Antiochian Orthodox and later with a Russian Master Iconographer, he chose to devote the majority of his artistic efforts to studying and painting in the iconographic tradition of the Eastern Churches. He Directs DominICON, a Province ministry that seeks to enhance the appreciation of holy icons and traditions of the Eastern Churches. Through the ministry he travels to teach and direct retreats.
Icon – Sacred Image
The course examines the history, theology, spirituality and tradition of holy icons as sacred Eastern Christian images, established on the doctrine of the Incarnation.
Introduction to Icon Painting
Each student is instructed and aided in the painting (writing) of an icon of the in the Byzantine tradition using acrylic paints, gold leaf, ancient and contemporary techniques.