Raised in a small farming community nestled under the Tetons in the upper Snake Valley of Southeastern Idaho, Bruce Brainard draws inspiration from the early American Landscape artist George Inness and artists associated with the Luminist movement, and the spiritual Romanticist Caspar David Friedrich. Adding his own distinctive contemporary perspective, he creates landscapes and seascapes metaphorically, using symbols and archetypes.
Bruce has worked professionally as an artist for over for over 25 years and his work is included in many collections throughout the United States.
Bruce loves to paint and feels that art can have great power. He believes as George Innis said that art is "a language to express thought " and as Picasso said, "The purpose of art is to express the great emotions." He has the found the most profound emotions aren't necessarily the loud, the sentimental, or even the profane, but rather the quiet, the authentic , and the sacred. He uses the landscape and seascape to try and express these emotions.
EDUCATION
1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
1992 Master of Fine Arts
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
AWARDS
2008 Dixie Invitational, St. George, Utah First Place Landscape Division Juror: Michael Malm, Artist
2003 79th Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah
Award of Merit
Juror: Alexey Leonivodich Steele, Artist, Los Angeles, California
Juror: Ellie Sonntag Stephens, Art Historian and Consultant, Salt Lake City, Utah
1988 Art Reach ’88, Salt Lake City, Utah
Purchase Award
Juror: Henry T. Hopkins, curator Frederick Wiesman Collection, Los Angeles, California
1988 Harris Fine Arts Center Annual Show, Provo, Utah
Juror’s Choice Award
1987 B.F.A. Show, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
First Place
Juror: Wayne Kimball, Artist
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 A Brightness of Hope, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2014 Pilgrimage, David Lusk Gallery , Memphis, Tennessee
2012 Texas Landscapes, Gremillion and Company Fine Art, Dallas, Texas Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2010 Resonance, Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Houston, Texas
Recent paintings, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2008 Coastal Odysseys, Marion Meyer Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, California
Tranquility, Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2007 Solum, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2006 Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas 2005 Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas 2005 Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah 2002 Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas
2002 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee 2002 Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Austin, Texas
2001 Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas 1998 Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas 1997 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
1996 Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas Wyndy Morehead Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
1995 Macon & Co. Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
1994 Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas Macon & Co. Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1992 Macon & Co. Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia 1987 Harris Fine Arts Center, Provo, Utah
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
Dixie Invitational, Eccles Fine Art Center, Dixie State College, St.George, Utah
2015 The Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
30th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah (juried exhibition), Springville Museum of Art, Springville Utah
2008 Dixie Invitational, Eccles Fine Art Center, Dixie State College, St. George, Utah
2006 Sweetwater Rescue, The Willie and Martin Handcart story (invitational), Museum of Church History and Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
2003 79th National Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville,Utah
2002 Utah Art 2002, Michael Quick, Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Juror, Salt Lake City, Utah
2001 77th National Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville,Utah
2000 The Landscape: Bruce Brainard & Phillip Tarlow, Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Austin, Texas
1999 75th National Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville,Utah
1998 Seven Artists in Seven Countries: Brad Aldridge, Bruce Brainard, Ron Richmond, Todd Stilson, Chris Thornock, Michael Workman & Chris Young (an exhibition of paintings inspired by their European tour), Springville Museum of Art, Springville,Utah
1998 74th National Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville,Utah
1998 Wulf Barsh & Bruce Brainard, Macon & Co. Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1997 Three Visions: Michael Workman, Bruce Brainard & DavidLynn, Meyer Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1995 71st National Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville,Utah
1992 The Landscape: Insight and Encounter, Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas
1992 Introductions, Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
1992 Introduction Paintings, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1988 Mountain West Biennial Paper Works, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah 1988 64th National Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville,Utah
1987 Harris Fine Arts Center Annual Show, Provo, Utah. Juror’s Choice Award
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Time Warner Communications, Houston, Texas
Memorial Hermann Hospital System, Houston, Texas
Kemmons-Wilson Companies, Memphis, Tennessee
Ritz Carlton, Naples, Florida
Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
Mitt and Ann Romney, Park City, Utah
TRT Holdings, Dallas, Texas
Horizon Resources, Inc. Houston, Texas
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Cokinos, Bosien & Young, Houston, Texas
Credit Suisse, Chicago, Illinois
Credit Suisse, New York, New York
The Landmarks Group, Atlanta, Georgia
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
The Robinson-Humphrey Company, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
Rock & Lietz, P.C., Atlanta, Georgia
Don & Pam Smith, Atlanta, Georgia
Karen Thomas,
Vinson & Elkins, Houston, Texas
United Parcel Service, Atlanta, Georgia
William’s Dye & Mold, Atlanta, Georgia
Clyde & Carol Williams, Atlanta, Georgia
Boothbay Harbor Country Club, Boothbay, Maine
Daniels Residence, Milton, Georgia
Cohen Residence, Atlanta, Georgia
