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① Artwork:
Site Spell of the Speleologist
This acrylic-on-canvas painting depicts a seated figure peering into a darkened cave. Referencing the archetype of the hermit in art history, it expresses our potential to gain wisdom, visions, or spiritual intervention through isolation.
Jacob Todd Broussard's work excavates often overlooked queer histories as a way of exploring ideas surrounding alterity, memory, and transformation. His richly layered paintings stitch together individuals, spaces, and moments from imagined histories, mystical folklore, and his own lived experience.
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③ Artist:
Jacob Todd Broussard's work excavates often overlooked queer histories as a way of exploring ideas surrounding alterity, memory, and transformation. His richly layered paintings stitch together individuals, spaces, and moments from imagined histories, mystical folklore, and his own lived experience.
Jacob Todd Broussard was born in 1992 in Lafayette, LA, and lives in Richmond, VA. He received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT (2019) and his BFA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, LA (2014).
Broussard has mounted recent solo exhibitions at Wolfgang Gallery in Atlanta, GA (2024); Towards in Toronto, Canada (2023); Rivalry Projects in Buffalo, NY (2022); PEEP Gallery in Philadelphia, PA (2022); Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, MA (2019); and The Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, LA (2017).
He was chosen as a Hopper Prize finalist (2023); a Bunker Projects Artist Resident in Pittsburgh, PA (2022); a Drawing Center Viewing Program participant (2020-21); an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant winner (2017, 2018, 2019); an Elizabeth Murray Resident at Collarworks in Granville, NY (2022) and Atlantic Center for the Arts resident, Master Artist Sanford Biggers, New Smyrna Beach, FL (2016).