The Latest… 

2024

• My sculpture “Earth Science” was selected for inclusion in the Taos Abstract Artist Collective’s juried show On Which it Rests. The show is presented in collaboration with the Couse-Sharp Historic Site. Mine was one of 21 pieces/artists were selected from over 220 submissions by curators Davison Packard Koenig and Alexandra Terry. TAAC produced a beautiful catalog of the show, and New Mexico Magazine did a feature story on the exhibit, featuring my piece.

  
  

2023

• The show Locura de Plastica (Plastic Madness), in which I have a piece, was presented in a new edition in Cartagena, this time including artists from Colombia.. Many thanks to artist/organizer Glen Rogers.

• Site Songs a collaboration with poet Ted Pearson, is an artists’ book consisting of 23 mixed media pieces combiined with 23 poems overlayed on transparent vellum.. Utilizing prime numbers as an organizing framework, the book measures 11 x 17. It is as yet unpublished.

• Once upon a time, my brothers and I had a popular new wave band in San Francisco. For some reason, we never managed to put out an album. Liberation Hall Music has now corrected that, with this release of NO SISTERS Live at the Mabuhay 1980, part of their Sounds from the San Francisco Underground series.. It’s a warts-and-all document of a particular time and place, where tho music was played very fast and loud — i.e. it’s fun! I’m glad this record is now in the world.

2022

• Brand new music from the amazing Banda Elastica, with myself on sax (on two tracks) and booklet artwork. Digital download available at Bandcamp.com. Contact me if you’d like to purchase a physical copy.

2021

• June 3. Now available — a limited edition book/cd set by my former band, the Splatter Trio, and poet Steve Benson: “It’s a Stool Pigeon Universe.” Previously unreleased recordings from 1991, with 120- page book of texts, photos and ephemera. Book designed by me, and includes five collages also by me, made for this book. Anyone interested in improvised music and poetry should own this! Available on Bandcamp.

• Very pleased to have been asked to contribute artwork and sax tracks for legendary Mexico City group Banda Elastica’s new work-in-progress, Pandemonium.

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2020

• My piece THE BOOK OF 32 has been published in a limited-edition of 16” x 16” books with slipcase! See the page elsewhere on this site for all the info.

• Emily C-D and I are interviewed in the excellent The Art of Improv blog: https://www.jenbroemel.com/the-art-of-improv

• My collaborative exhibit, Silent Acoustic, with my good friend and talented colleague Emily C-D, is now online! This sculptural conversation between two improvising artists and musicians Includes images, videos, and text relating to a recent series of wood-based sculptures created by each of us.

• I have a piece in the current exhibition of “Locura de Plastica (Plastic Madness),” at Baupres Gallery in Mazatlan . Check out the cool virtual version here. I am again grateful to Glen Rogers for the invitation to participate with a new piece.

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  2019

• Thrilled to have been included in an exhibit of artist’s books, In and Out of ConTEXT, curated by Lena Bartula, during February, 2019 at the wonderful Galeria La Huipilista, in Colonia Guadalupe, SMA. Other featured artists included Leigh Hyams (my late mother-in-law), Project B, and Glen Rogers.

• As the closing event of In and Out of ConTEXT, on Saturday February 23 at 5pm we held a Random Moby-Dick Read-In, utilizing my piece, The Moby-Dick Tree. Over a dozen people chose a page at random from the Tree, and read it aloud to the audience. It was a great success!

• I contributed a sculptural piece, “Gush,” to a group exhibit called Plastic Madness at Casa Europa in SMA during March 2019. The theme, curated by Glen Rogers, had to do with artists’ responses to the plastic waste epidemic that is wreaking havoc on the earth. Thirty artists were included in the show, which Glen has mounted previously in other parts of Mexico, the U.S., and abroad. it was the most-visited of any exhibition at Casa Europa to date, and the show was extended into April.

• Was honored and delighted to be part of Danny Cameron’s annual ArteTaco bash in November 2018. My work was featured along with photographer Peter Levitan and Danny’s own assemblages. I had a room to myself, and showed all new work made in 2018, including some large sculptures.