John Brosio

About

John Brosio is an American painter born in 1967 in South Pasadena or Pasadena, California, known for his surreal paintings exploring the contrast between small-scale human elements, like suburbia and everyday life, and vast natural forces such as tornadoes, monsters, and cosmological concepts. He began drawing monsters and scenes inspired by films like Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, and Ray Harryhausen works from a young age. Brosio studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena under Richard Bunkall, Ray Turner, and David Limrite, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California, Davis in 1991, studying under Wayne Thiebaud, David Hollowell, Robert Arneson, and others. An internship at Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic Creature Shop in 1990 shifted his focus from film special effects to fine art, influencing the cinematic quality of his work.[1][2][5][6]

Pop Surrealism, Anxious Realism