Brian Cirmo
February 27th – March 26th, 2020
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 27th, 5-7 pm
Brian Cirmo has the past two decades traveling throughout the country visiting museums, large cities, small towns, national parks, civil war battlefields, assassination sites, graveyards, and national monuments. He states he is a lifelong student of the vast profundity of American music as well as a glutton for American history, literature, western painting, film, comic strips, and cartoons; all of which have consumed my nights and days. These interests and practices are harvested and used within my process to create an intertextuality in the paintings.
Using western painting, literature, popular culture, personal memories, and personal aesthetics as sources, he is focused on building a series of paintings that examine and encapsulate characteristics of the human condition, such as life and death, love and loss, evolution, and creationism, comedy and tragedy, fame and anonymity, conflict and harmony, and morality and immorality.
Cirmo was born in Utica, NY, and completed his first two years of college at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute. He received a B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the State University of New York at Albany. Cirmo lives and works in Albany, NY and Syracuse, NY, and is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Onondaga Community College
