Lives and works in Albany, New York.
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I have spent the past two decades traveling throughout the country visiting museums, large cities, small towns, national parks, civil war battlefields, assassination sites, graveyards, and national monuments. I am a lifelong student of the vast profundity of American music as well as a glutton for American history, literature, western painting, film, comic strips, and cartoons. These interests and practices are harvested and used within my process to create an intertextuality in the paintings.
Using western painting, literature, popular culture, personal memories, and personal aesthetic as sources, I’m focused on building a series of paintings that encapsulate characteristics of the human condition, such as life and death, love and loss, evolution and creationism, comedy and tragedy, fame and anonymity, conflict and harmony, and morality and immorality. 
Gray Hearts, 2019, Oil on canvas, 44" x 62"
Heap, 2018, Oil on canvas, 72" x 32"
A Squatter, A Dreamer, A Reader, A Peeker, and A Cat, 2019, Oil on canvas, 54'' x 68''
It's Wake Up Time, 2019, Oil on canvas, 20'' x 22''
No Direction Home, 2019, Oil on canvas, 18'' x 18''
Night Swimming, 2019, Oil on canvas, 22'' x 20''
Airborne, 2019, Oil on canvas, 22'' x 20''
In The Bag, 2019, Oil on canvas, 22''x 20''
Gray Tree, 2018, Oil on canvas, 20'' x 20''
Pink Turtleneck, 2018, Oil on canvas, 16'' x 16''
About the Artist
Brian Cirmo is represented by 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel in New York City. Recent projects include a solo exhibition at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel; artist in residence at Salem Art Works and the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency.
Cirmo was born in Utica, NY and completed his first two years of college at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute. He received an M.F.A. from SUNY Albany and a B.F.A. from the College of Saint Rose. Cirmo lives and works in Albany, NY and is Assistant Professor at Onondaga Community College.
Artwork courtesy of the artist and 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel.
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