John Brosio

“My most ambitious work has the look of narrative but is rather more like an ecosystem, a terrarium in which certain ratios of occupant to environment are apportioned and explored. The notion of environment and our role within it, our place in the universe, absolutely fascinates me. Not all of my work reaches this far as forays into humor or paint and color per se can definitely engage me but, the notion of environment, both natural and social, is my base inspiration. Realization, for instance, of the fact that things like sandwiches and nuclear fusion are deeply and daily linked gives rise to the notion of a context for us so compelling and vast that it drives me to explore the seemingly disparate dynamics of spectacle and commonplace and reconcile them into relationship as allegory and pertinence. Indeed, the subject matter that most quickly owns our attention is my muse and for good reason: Dinosaur bones, tornadoes, sharks, and the like, have everything to do with defining our place in the scheme of things. They are accessible representatives of the larger forces which not only brought us here but will one day take us away. Incidentally, ask any astrophysicist today and I suspect that, after a possible battle of semantics, he or she will agree that the only Creation there has ever been is Definition itself.”

Harbinger, 48 x 48, oil on canvas, 1995

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