Mark Brosseau

Born in Lyndon, VT / Works in Greenville, SC

BIO

Mark Brosseau grew up in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, received his BA from Dartmouth College, and earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. After that, he was a Fulbright Scholar for painting and printmaking in Iceland. Mark currently lives with his wife and two dogs in Greer, SC, where he was one of the founding members of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville. He is a 2019 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

My work is driven by curiosity and wonder. My childhood was largely spent outdoors in the woods and hills around our Vermont home. That was my first foray into space exploration, which now continues through art. I use painting to ask questions about how I relate to everything around me. The paintings are experiments, and I want them to be simultaneously vast and intimate – equally fleeting and precious. A painting is finished when both the familiar and the undiscovered resonate.