Michael Brodeur was born in Claremont, NH. He is a painter and draughtsman who earned his B.A. in art at the University of New Hampshire and his M.F.A. in painting/drawing from Boston University where he studied with Philip Guston. He is Associate Professor in studio art (foundations, painting and drawing) at Furman University, Greenville SC. Mr. Brodeur has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group shows including 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. 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 are among the public institutions that hold his work. He is a 1997 recipient of a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. Among Mr. Brodeur’s teaching credits are: 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. His work is represented in the online registry, Southern Artistry.
STATEMENT: I have lived and worked in the South since 1993, first in Florida, subsequently at my current home in South Carolina. Although my work has consistently used metaphor as a pictorial device, the quality of southern light, compared to that of New England, has had a major impact on my palette. Life in the South has also presented better opportunities to exhibit my work and to achieve some measure of recognition.
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