Jim Brossy

My role as an artist is to become more aware and curious. All life experiences, physical, intellectual and emotional, contribute to the process of making art. Through the study of science I approach art with a problem-solving mentality. Mathematics has given me the experience of pure thought and music a means of expressing it. My work in construction has given me an appreciation of a variety of materials and methods of execution. The direction in which I move depends on my desire to find ways of realizing my dreams.
We walk among objects in the world around us, seeing objects in relationship to other objects and self gives us a sense of scale, mass and position. The universe is a layering of planes, one in front of the other. Over time I have become more aware of how I see the world and my fundamental process of making art. The painting is not a representation of life, but a real thing, an object in real space that can be experienced as a picture. This is how I have been making art, constructing as much as painting. My paintings are a layering of planes, one in front of another. Every material offers a series of sensibilities, forming rhythms and patterns obeying the same forces of nature governing all things. Assemblage and coll...

Pa. Academy of Fine Art- MFA

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2013 Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, PA
2012 House Gallery 1816, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Gallery 24, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005,04,02,01 Peng Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, PA
2004 RX, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Adrienne Theater, "Amputation Nation", Philadelphia, PA
1999-98 Lockjaw Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Supreme Bean, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009 Obama-Rams, Projects Gallery, Philadephia, PA
2008 DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Paper -Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006 International Assemblage Artist Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2006 Black and White, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Viridian Gallery, NY, NY
2005 City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
2004 9 Artists-An Invitational Exhibition- Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA
2001 "Dining Haul", Truck Installation Project, NY, NY
2001 Denise Bibro...