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40 x 30 in
Each of the birds in this series represents an important moment in my life that I want to remember—whether it was good or bad. They are life lessons that I’m sharing with you. I use the birds as a canvas or skeleton for stories of my life experiences.
Birds, because they come in all shapes, color and sizes. They are resilient and colorful. Birds with the qualities and color of the feelings I was experiencing.
However, life and its decisive moments occasionally bow to the practical and the pedestrian. For example, I spend hours drawing and that gives me a lot of time to think, and sometimes I get hungry. My favorite cereal is Lucky Charms, so occasionally yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers will find their way onto the paper. Each piece is a visual diary, a story of my life and what happens around me.
The works are one-of-a-kind pastel drawings, and my intent is to push the medium of pastel and pencil to the point that it takes on an expressive, painterly quality. With paint, you can be explosive; the medium is wet and can be textured.
But drawing with pastels is a controlled, dry medium. For this series, I choose bold colors and did all of the creating, thinking, and drawing on the paper. I’m working toward creating dry paintings.
I’m really a storyteller. But I draw my stories rather than speak or write them.
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Birds, Bird, Hummingbird, Owl, pastel drawing, colorful, Lucky Charms, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers, storyteller
| Year | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 40 x 30 in |
| Signature | Signed |
| SKU | 924802-573 |
Omaha based artist Joseph Broghammer is as much of a storyteller as he is an artist. His one-of-a-kind oil pastel drawings in “Animals” are chronicles of his life. The creatures Broghammer creates are vehicles to uncover the varying characteristics of the artist’s personal identity.
Surrounding Broghammer's animals are different icons, streams of consciousness, or keys to understanding the stories Broghammer shares.
Broghammer received his B.F.A. in Visual Art at the University of South Dakota. He graduated in 1986 and a year later went on to study his M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin. In 2009, he studied at Creative Capital in Omaha, Nebraska.
As storytellers often do, Broghammer later went on to become an educator himself, teaching at WhyArts? and becoming an Artist Assistant at Vera Mercer in Omaha – both of which he still practices at today.
He has exhibited work through a vast number of solo and group shows internationally in Italy, Germany, Holland, Mexico, and even Kansas City.
In 2018, Broghammer became a published illustrator in the successful children's book, "Chica," written by Karen Duncan.
Although Broghammer’s portraits depict downy creatures, his work is very much about the human experience. They are honest and full of life, evoking a sincere exchange between artist and viewer. “Animals” is for the animal lovers, students, teachers, collectors, writers, the young or old, and art historians alike.
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