MJ's work confidently engaged the eye. David Kiehl, Curator, Whitney Museum
Immediacy, originality . . . beauty and sensitivity. Ellen Harris, Former Director, Aperture Foundation
A sense of power and a tranquil still-life vision. Il Gazzettino di Venezia
What keeps us human in the best sense is exemplified strongly in this work. Bruce Brown, Collector, Curator
Very compelling work. Francine Weiss, Curator, Photo Historian
Immediacy, originality . . . beauty and sensitivity. Ellen Harris, Former Director, Aperture Foundation
A sense of power and a tranquil still-life vision. Il Gazzettino di Venezia
What keeps us human in the best sense is exemplified strongly in this work. Bruce Brown, Collector, Curator
Very compelling work. Francine Weiss, Curator, Photo Historian
I've been a photographer, painter, author and designer for more than 30 years: Making images, creating work for other people, leading workshops, receiving commissions, licensing work for publication, and designing books. Known for my unique painted images and work with the photographic negative, my art is exhibited and published around the world.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in the suburbs, imagination and creativity were my lifeline. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology (painting and sculpture) and Hampshire College (filmmaking and photography), it was in the years of living in Italy and wandering the streets of Europe with a camera where core ideas about art-making began to take shape. With inspiration from my early art heroes (both photographers and painters–Cartier Bresson, Paul Klee, Matisse, Karel Appel, Roy de Carava), years of darkroom based, hand painted photography followed. After creating many collections of painted photographs, I moved into the digital darkroom and "painting" digitally.
In 2000, I began a long, slow, fifteen year dive into the realm of negative imagery and painted negative imagery, to evoke memory, past lives and invisible energies. This work is collected in the monograph Illuminating the Negative: Fifteen Years of Photographs.
A love for children's drawings led to many collaborations with kids, combining their drawings with my photographs to create a number of Public Art Commissions. An art educator and creator of ArtLab for All Ages, a hands-on program at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, I am also the author of PhotoPlay, published by Chronicle Books. In 2015, PhotoPlay was reprinted in The Netherlands.
An insatiable traveler with a great love for the sea, in 2014 I began working for Celebrity Cruises, designing itinerary-based projects to teach creative watercolor painting aboard the ships. I spent five years traveling the world with Celebrity, painting and teaching all along the way.
In 2018, I was awarded a residency at the Millay Colony of the Arts, and my work was selected for the Biennial at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. In the Spring of 2020, a solo exhibition of my intimate, symbolic paintings was on view at the Zillman Art Museum. During the pandemic, I turned to ceramics, studying, making work, and transitioning my studio into a ceramic studio: marciejbronstein.com. My vessels are process-driven, sculptural paintings created in the spirit of play and discovery, where multi-layered surface histories reflect a palpable passage of time.
Since 1996, I've lived and worked in a converted barn, with my family, on the coast of Maine.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in the suburbs, imagination and creativity were my lifeline. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology (painting and sculpture) and Hampshire College (filmmaking and photography), it was in the years of living in Italy and wandering the streets of Europe with a camera where core ideas about art-making began to take shape. With inspiration from my early art heroes (both photographers and painters–Cartier Bresson, Paul Klee, Matisse, Karel Appel, Roy de Carava), years of darkroom based, hand painted photography followed. After creating many collections of painted photographs, I moved into the digital darkroom and "painting" digitally.
In 2000, I began a long, slow, fifteen year dive into the realm of negative imagery and painted negative imagery, to evoke memory, past lives and invisible energies. This work is collected in the monograph Illuminating the Negative: Fifteen Years of Photographs.
A love for children's drawings led to many collaborations with kids, combining their drawings with my photographs to create a number of Public Art Commissions. An art educator and creator of ArtLab for All Ages, a hands-on program at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, I am also the author of PhotoPlay, published by Chronicle Books. In 2015, PhotoPlay was reprinted in The Netherlands.
An insatiable traveler with a great love for the sea, in 2014 I began working for Celebrity Cruises, designing itinerary-based projects to teach creative watercolor painting aboard the ships. I spent five years traveling the world with Celebrity, painting and teaching all along the way.
In 2018, I was awarded a residency at the Millay Colony of the Arts, and my work was selected for the Biennial at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. In the Spring of 2020, a solo exhibition of my intimate, symbolic paintings was on view at the Zillman Art Museum. During the pandemic, I turned to ceramics, studying, making work, and transitioning my studio into a ceramic studio: marciejbronstein.com. My vessels are process-driven, sculptural paintings created in the spirit of play and discovery, where multi-layered surface histories reflect a palpable passage of time.
Since 1996, I've lived and worked in a converted barn, with my family, on the coast of Maine.
