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Visions of the Burman
Reflecting on ideas of transition and metamorphosis, the artist turned toward Carnivale from his home state of Louisiana for this body of work. The Mystic Krewe of Apollo is the oldest, continuously gay Mardi Gras krewe in Louisiana, and he worked from photographs and memorabilia to memorialize his queer ancestors in these paintings.
For the artist, this series embodies ideas of duality, feeling, the grotesque, and the ornamental, which all play out in the Carnivale coming-of-age ritual and its self-made, archetypal characters. Growing up queer and Cajun, it was easy for him to make connections between the accepted vernaculars of each tribe. Cajuns, one could argue, seem to contain a latent queer dimension in the context of American culture, with their dark mythos and history.
Through personal history, memory, queer archives, and folklore, Jacob Todd Broussard's paintings and drawings examine narrative structures and create meaning through disparate imagery. His work investigates painting’s relationship to queer subjectivity by utilizing strategies of ciphers, hiding-in-plain-sight, and calling upon forgotten or marginalized histories. Pulling from the Cajun folklore of his childhood, Broussard’s work engages an archetypal realm that investigates the psychology of imagery, including a large-scale project inspired by the artist Forrest Bess.
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Through personal history, memory, queer archives, and folklore, Jacob Todd Broussard's paintings and drawings examine narrative structures and create meaning through disparate imagery. His work investigates painting’s relationship to queer subjectivity by utilizing strategies of ciphers, hiding-in-plain-sight, and calling upon forgotten or marginalized histories. Pulling from the Cajun folklore of his childhood, Broussard’s work engages an archetypal realm that investigates the psychology of imagery, including a large-scale project inspired by the artist Forrest Bess.
Jacob Todd Broussard was born in 1992 and lives in Buffalo, NY. He received his MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT (2019) and his BFA in painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2014).
He has mounted solo and two-person exhibitions at Rivalry Projects in Buffalo, NY (2022); Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, LA (2021); Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, MA (2019); and Basin Arts in Lafayette, LA (2017) among others.
Broussard has participated in various group exhibitions, including Painting: New Approaches at the Chan Gallery at Pomona College in Claremont, CA (2022); Engaging Sage at the Hartnett Gallery at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY (2021); Viewing Program 20/21 at The Drawing Center in New York City, NY (2021); The View From Here at Artspace in New Haven, CT (2020); and Allan Jones – Mentor Painter at Fletcher Hall Gallery at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, LA (2020).
He has received grants and awards such as the Play/Ground Project Grant from Resource:Art in Buffalo, NY (2022), the Emergency Artist Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York City, NY (2021), an Artist Microgrant from the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art in Buffalo, NY (2020), The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in Montreal, QC, Canada (2019, 2018, 2017) and the Alfred McDougal Scholarship from the Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT (2018).
Reflecting on ideas of transition and metamorphosis, the artist turned toward Carnivale from his home state of Louisiana for this body of work. The Mystic Krewe of Apollo is the oldest, continuously gay Mardi Gras krewe in Louisiana, and he worked from photographs and memorabilia to memorialize his queer ancestors in these paintings.More
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