Michael Brodeur

Contemporary Carolina Abstraction II

2012-02-22T15:50:00.001-05:00

To view work by the artists in the exhibition click on their names:

Michael Brodeur
Anna Redwine
Tom Stanley
H. Brown Thornton
Enid Williams
Paul Yanko

For installation shots CLICK HERE

Sacred and Profane Heart

2011-10-17T18:07:00.000-04:00

Baggage, 2005, oil on canvas, 28 x 26 in., $2,000

Black Swansong, 2006
Oil on canvas, 42 x 24 in.
$3,000

Every Boy's Dream (Dedicated to Ennis del
Mar), 2006, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in.,
$3,500

Purple Heart, 2005, oil on canvas, 26 x 26 in., $2,000

Pansies and Other Fruits

2011-10-17T18:00:00.002-04:00

Bananas, Peaches, and Pears... Oh My!, 2011
Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 in., $3,000

Close-up of Mariposa

Mariposa, 2010, oil on canvas, 51 x 51 in. (diagonally)
$3,500

Portrait of Oscar Wilde, 2010, oil with collage on canvas
28 x 28 in., $2,500

Protective Coloration, 2010, oil on canvas, 16 x 16 in.
$1,500

Southern Exposure, 2010, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 in., $1,750

Don't 'llow No Queers 'round Here, 2011
Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 in., $3,000

Small Works: "Of Cubic Proportions"

2011-10-13T12:46:00.004-04:00

A Prophet In His Own Land, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
2.75 x 4 in., $700

Voyeur, 2010, alkyd on wood panel, 4 x 6.25 in., $750

A Blue Connection, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
5.75 x 7 in., $750

A Complementary Pair, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
5 x 7 in., $750

A Single Man, 2010, oil on rag board panel
7.5 x 6 in., $800

A Solitary Life, 2010
alkyd on rag board panel
7.5 x 5 in., $800

Almost Invisible, 2010
Silverpoint on micaceous iron oxide ground on rag board
5 x 4.5 in., $600

Aloof, 2010, alkyd on wood panel, 4 x 5.75 in., $750

Amor Maternus, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
5 x 6.25 in., $750

Banding Together, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
6 x 10 in., $850

Best of Friends, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
3.125 x 5 in., $700

Betrothal, 2010, alkyd on wood panel, 4 x 5.5 in., $750

Black Block, 2010, alkyd on rag board panel
4.25 x 6 in., $750

Cenotaph, 2010, alkyd on wood panel, 6 x 5 in., $750

Cool Couple, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
3.5 x 5 in., $700

Covert Existence, 2010
Silverpoint on micaceous iron oxide ground
5 x 7 in., $800

Elvin-Tu Sonrisa Parece el Sol, 2011
Alkyd on wood panel, 5 x 11 in., $750

Green Siblings, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
4.5 x 9.5 in., $850

Halfway Measures, 2010
Alkyd on wood panel
9.5 x 5 in., $800

He Was a Friend of Mine, 2010
Alkyd on wood panel, 5.5 x 5 in., $750

High Blue, 2010
Alkyd on wood panel,
6.5 x 4.25 in., $750

His Name Is Zack, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
4.5 x 5.75 in., $750

I Am, 2009,
Alkyd on rag board panel
4 x 6.25 in., $750

I Kissed A Boy (And I Liked It), 2010
Alkyd on wood panel, 3.375 x 4 in., $700

Kindred Spirits, 2010
Alkyd on wood panel
5 x 3.125 in., $700

Light Bearer, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
3.25 x 5.25 in., $750

Little Sis, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
2.75 x 2.75 in., $700

Passionate One, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
4.75 x 3.5 in., $700

Phalanx, 2010, alkyd on wood panel, 4.75 x 6.25 in., $750

Plum, Plummed, 2010
Alkyd on wood panel, 6 x 4.5 in., $750

Recluse, 2010
Silverpoint on micaceous iron oxide ground
on rag board
6 x 4.5 in., $600

Separate Ways, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
3.25 x 5.875 in., $750

Siblings, 2010, alkyd on wood panel, 3.25 x 4.75 in., $700

So Shy, 2010
Copperpoint on micaceous iron oxide ground
3 x 3 in., $500

The Guardians, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
4.5 x 6.5 in., $750

The Way Lovers Do, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
3.125 x 4.125 in., $700

Three Sisters, 2010
Silverpoint on micaceous iron oxide ground
5 x 9 in., $800

Warm Embrace, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
5 x 8 in., $850

Standoff, 2010, alkyd on wood panel, 6 x 7 in., $750

Perpetual Outsider, 2010, alkyd on wood panel, 5 x 9 in.
$800

Michael Brodeur: Biography

2011-10-13T12:04:00.001-04:00

BIO:

Michael Brodeur is Associate Professor in studio art (foundations, painting and drawing) at Furman University, Greenville SC. He was born in Claremont, NH and graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a B.A. in art. He earned an M.F.A. in painting/drawing from Boston University where he studied with Philip Guston. Mr. Brodeur has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group shows including Contemporary Conversations, Works curated from the South Carolina Art Collection (Eleanor Heartney, curator), 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC, From America, Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk Belarus, Mostra, Cortona Italy, The South Carolina Triennial 2001, From the Studio at the Greenville County Museum of Art, the Hortt Annual at the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and the Greater Midwest International Exhibition XX at Central Missouri State University. Drawings from his series, Styrofoam as Metaphor, are included in New American Paintings, edition #58.

His work is in numerous private collections. Among the public institutions that hold his work are The Emrys Foundation, Greenville SC, Columbia College in Columbia SC, LaMar Dodd Art Center at LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA, the South Carolina Arts Commission, The South Carolina State Museum and the Greenville County Museum of Art. He is a 1997 recipient of a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. Mr. Brodeur’s teaching credits include: Chair of the Foundations Program at the New England School of Art and Design and faculty at Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton. He founded and chaired the Visual Arts Department at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities before his tenure at Furman.

Styrofoam Series

2005-08-03T15:24:00.000-04:00

Styrofoam Study, 2004, oil on canvas
15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in., $800

Atocha, 2003, graphite on paper, 11 3/4 x 18 3/4 in., $900

Tower, 2003, graphite on paper
25 x 16 in., $1,200

SOLD WORKS

2004-09-16T13:22:00.000-04:00

Roulette, 2004, oil on canvas, 14 x 14 in.

Facade, 2004, graphite on paper

Mausoleum, 2003, graphite on paper

Portal, 2003, graphite on paper

Domus, oil on canvas, 16 x 16 in.

Orange Glimmer, 2010, alkyd on wood panel
6 x 5 in., $750

Blade, 2003, graphite on
paper, 21.75 x 8.75 in.
$1,000

Untitled, 2003, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in., $1,000

Dowager, 2010, alkyd on wood panel,
5 x 4 in., $750