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Jim Brossy
"Unentitled"
June 1st - July 29th 2007 Projects Gallery

Projects Gallery proudly presents Philadelphia artist Jim Brossy’s “Unentitled”, in his premier solo exhibition with Projects. This Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts M.F.A. recipient crafts highly textured, mixed media, assemblage paintings using artistic, construction and found material. Tar, latex, cement, wax, string and steel all make appearances in his paintings, in addition to the more traditional acrylic, pastel, pencil and oil. Found objects such as newspaper and old clothes augment the richness and narrative of the work. The mixed media aspects add a literal and figurative gravity to the subjects. His paintings speak to the prevailing social issues and injustices of contemporary society.

There is a strong urban language, a rhythm of signs and buildings that resonate throughout the work. The complex, linear compositions evoke a sense of cityscapes. Bulldozers, clothes lines and tight fences appear as unusual subject matter. The duality in his use of black and white striping evokes imprisonments as varied as the holocaust to ghettoizing socioeconomic disparities. Figures read newspapers bearing headlines manipulated by the artist, satirizing media paranoia and frivolity. A woman hoists a sagging sheet to dry on a clothesline while nearly being enveloped by the chore. Garish machinery plows through old buildings, hinting at urban sprawl and gentrification. Brossy’s paintings focus on the dispossessed, highlighting the inequality in our culture between those who are presumed entitled and those who are not

 

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