Brian Cirmo exhibits narrative figure paintings of American images that tell American stories. He has spent the past decade traveling throughout the country visiting museums, large cities, small towns, national parks, Civil War battlefields, assassination sites, graveyards and national monuments. He is interested in American music, American history, literature, Western painting, film, comic strips and cartoons.

About his series of drawings and paintings, Cirmo says BLACK “finds my protagonists in destitute environments, ‘where black is the color, and none is the number’ (Bob Dylan). The pressure to survive, to provide, to perform, to succeed and to protect is closing in on them. The businessman, the proletariat, the artist, losers and winners, insomniacs and maniacs, pacifists and militants are all fitted, manipulated and forced into conformation.”

Cirmo earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y., and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University at Albany. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Harry Wood Gallery at Arizona State University, Diane Kidd Gallery at Tiffin University and Kellogg Gallery at California Polytechnic State University.

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