Janet Bruesselbach

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Janet was raised by optical physicists near Los Angeles in the 1980s and 90s, and now lives and works in Queens, New York City. It started oil painting young, focusing early on figuration, and inspired by science fiction literature. Its work melds human intimacy celebrating diverse personalities with radical relationships to technology, particularly exploring queer experience. Janet's strengths are in portraiture, oil paintings as artifacts of live sittings that transform the subject as they want to be seen, and it is open to commissions. It also incorporates and generates elements of organic abstraction and psychedelic imagery, as in Paleofacture, an exploration of evolutionary history and the permeable boundary between natural and artificial. Janet made a child in 2022 who is also an ongoing labor of creation. Its newest project is Analog Imagination, in which surreal paintings are based on verbal prompts submitted through its website.

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Illustration BFA 2006
New York Academy of Art Painting MFA 2009

Jan 2024 Parables of the Unknown (group) Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
Sept 2023 Family: Blood or Bond (group) Culture Lab, 5-25 46th Ave, LIC, NY
June 2023 Beloved Monsters (pop up) Experimental Space, 44-01 22nd St. 300, LIC NY
July 2018 Speculative Realism Book & Puppet, 466 Northampton St, Easton, PA
August 2016 Daughters of Mercury Leslie-Lohman Museum’s Prince St. Project Space
Nov 2015 Daughters of Mercury babycastles, 137 west 14th St. 2nd Floor, NYC
May 2012 Teleportraiture Space Womb, 22-48 Jackson Ave, L.I.C., NY 11101
March 2012 Exquisite Poop: Blind Reproduction (curated) A Gathering of the Tribes, 285 E 3rd St. 2 NY, NY 10009
May 2011 “I Hate Art” A Gathering of the Tribes