Wolfgang Gallery Announces the Representation of Jacob Todd Broussard
Wolfgang Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Jacob Todd Broussard.
Jacob Todd Broussard (b. 1992) received his BFA in Painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2014 and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2019. He’s shown work in various exhibitions across Louisiana, New York, California, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Canada. Most recent solo exhibitions include Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, The Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Rivalry Projects in Buffalo, Play/Ground in Buffalo, PEEP Gallery in Philadelphia, and Towards Gallery in Toronto (forthcoming). He was a 2020/21 Drawing Center Viewing Program participant and a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant for three consecutive years. His work has been reviewed in Cornelia Magazine and Burnaway. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Bunker Projects, The League Residency at Vyt, and more. He co-founded Kingfish, an art and architecture project space based in Buffalo, NY and also hosts an art podcast, Tintamarre. Currently, he is an artist-in-resident at the HouseofCards Artist Retreat in South Louisiana. Broussard's first exhibition with Wolfgang Gallery will be in November 2023.
Pulling from personal history, memory, queer archival records, and folklore, Broussard's paintings and drawings examine narrative structures and form while negotiating the instance of meaning-making through images. His work is an investigation of painting’s relationship to a queer subjectivity: one that utilizes strategies of ciphers, of hiding-in-plain-sight, and of calling upon forgotten, marginalized histories to speak to memory and the misfit. Pulling from Cajun folkloric registers of his childhood, his work engages the archetypal realm which investigates the psychological resonances of images. Sacrificing realism allows for a new truth to present itself. Broussard is interested in vernacular modes of representation that have the ability of holding mystery while contributing to an expansive understanding of what images can do. His work includes a large-scale biomythography project inspired by artist Forrest Bess following a hermit archetype as he travels through seven interiors/castles of the spirit in search of seven virtues. Each of these spaces–the hermit’s shack, a local gay night club, a monk’s stylite – are “sites/sights” of queer interiorities.
