Brian Jerome

The drive from Philadelphia to my hometown, York, used to seem like an eternity 16 years ago. As time has flown by, so has the drive. What once seemed like most a day, is a blip of...

After a treacherous year of change and the emotional brutality and transition of life, I engaged on a physical and, non-intended, journey through mental revival. To leave old rumina...

In the last 16 years I have moved 9 times. 3 of which were houses i purchased with the intent to never move again and to finally have some where to call home. In all those apartmen...

I was raised very religiously. Revelations always interested me as an adolescent. Revelations 8:7 speaks of fire and hail mixed with blood raining on Earth. During this year after t...

2023 was a terrible year, personally for me. A lot of loss, restructure, defeat, and recognition that life inevitably moves on and gets worse. Here is to not giving up, and 2024.

After a distress of traumatic event, reflection, acceptance, and continuance, one can revisit the world in a less stark and depressing manner.

To find myself and return to what makes me, myself, i traveled to new towns and cities through airplanes, trains and cars. It made me healthier.

When life feels stuck or defeated, sometimes the answer is to return from a former starting place, reflect and move forward. Sometimes there are people and relationships that are lo...

Sometimes when life changes over the years, one can try to adjust. Sometimes this becomes suppressing the authentic self. This is a mistake.

A friend from grad school gave me a painting he did not think was successful. I have worked over the canvas since 2017. It is now 2023 and I finally feel like it is done.

Listings with rich descriptions are 40% more likely to sell and this was made when I filed for divorce.

Listings with rich descriptions are 40% more likely to sell and this was made while trying to ignore my inevitable divorce.

So it started here, and then we met so and so, we got to there, and then this happened, so we backtracked to where we left off and now it is kind of right here in this mess.

A place and a time that I have never visited but would like to stay at.

I grew up next to a farm, next to woods. I moved to North Philly. My parents sold the house I grew up in when I left and moved to 2000s suburbia housing. I moved to Kensington. My f...

My wife and I visited Edinburgh, Scotland for Thanksgiving. It was an incredibly nostalgic trip for one we had never been on. We held hands and walked the streets by the ferris whe...

We tend to think of plans as aspects of progress. Sometimes in life you do not realize that you may have actually created a plan to implode or have dire consequences.

Sometimes we can stare out, space out and be content losing track of time.

We go after what we do not have. We want what we have not. It might be foolish, but in order to to be happy, one must try.

A possible metaphysical map to the answer that does or does not exist or that we may benefit from.

What was going on in the background Edvard Munch's "The Scream". What did the onlookers think?

In Jewish tradition, Babylon symbolizes an oppressor against which righteous believers must struggle.[citation needed] In Christianity, Babylon symbolizes worldliness and evil. Proph...

After school in high school, I would drive around the cornfields and neighborhoods with friends listening to music and smoking until it was time to ...

Materials used to show the vadalism, cover up, and decay of Philadelphia that mimics all of us.

Always comes form my wife's favorite story but always is what always was and will be. forever is a constant to the universe but not to us.

Looking outside while the outside does not look inside all while the view has always been skewed

A calmer, more mature and slower work dealing with time and growth, as well as, change like the wind and weather.

The 4th installment of my pieces set to waltz music.

Those times when the world, no matter how awful, blissful, woeful or joyful freezes and it is simply appreciated.

Getting pinkeye as an adult is odd. Especially from adult things. Also I am depressed.

Scotland is a great place to visit. World War 1 was a hundred years ago. We are repeating.

Life is a bunch of experiences of grasping and hoping for what you want but cannot control.

Some sunny days I feel relaxed; I feel like everything will be okay. But then it is disrupted with the news and hardships of reality and the anxiety it causes

We self-correct stories about ourselves. We retell stories the way we remember and how we want to remember. Political narratives change. People remember stories in relationships diff...

When is there enough effort put? In relationships, self preservation, career, politics, etc. We think it's enough, but we keep finding out there is more we could have done and should...

In my adult life, I have only seen more and more horrid things happen in the world. Even though COVID-19 is letting up, a faux state of normalcy exists. ...

Trying to look ahead to the future. It keeps getting grayer and murkier. Looking for the headlights.

I have trouble sleeping. Trouble falling asleep. Trouble staying asleep. Trouble sometimes telling dreams from waking life. I have used multiple medications and substances over the y...

I contracted Covid-19 after the pandemic started. Even after my recovery, I became more and more reobsessed with finite conclusion. I have to die someday...

I like that the universe is indifferent to us and that the plants and water will live without our concern of self and worry

There is a monster inside. There is a journey to discover. Life sucks. Life is beautiful.

My Nana and Grandpa had a watercolor painting of a barn growing up. I loved it growing up even though it took me until i was 16 to see a barn. Thought it. was abstract but i was over...

Primary Colors. World War 3. Covid. My wife created the best absurd title. Make your own meaning.

Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence.

I wish I could do commissions. But I cannot. I heart is the bitter buffalo.

I lived in North Philadelphia and Kensington for over a decade. My first studio after grad school was in the Badlands. I had a rickety balcony that had a great view of the neighborh...

A calm piece hiding a lot of pain.

Had a mental breakdown. Life seemed to fall apart. The weather was beautiful for November.

Hunters herded the bison and drove them over the cliff, breaking their legs and rendering them immobile. Tribe members waiting below closed in with spears and bows to finish the kills.

I spent almost a decade after kitchen shifts at Old Philadelphia Bar in Kensington.

This probably deals with the subject of media, fame, guilt, internalization, rumination, capitalism, and being alive in the contemporary. I really hate ans...

Revelations 11:6 seems to show humanity and its choses towards to the Earth and Nature.

Life creates it self. We make choices. My promise of always is to the one that means everything to me. The hope of happiness and utopia forever through struggle and learning to under...

My girlfriend (now my wife) had trouble falling asleep one night. While i slept she went into my studio and made a drawing with pastel on one of my business cards and left it for me ...

This was one of the first paintings of 2020. I had sold my first house and moved in with my fiance. I recently learned my studio lease would not be renewed. The angst of starting ane...

The title comes from a reflection of my life living in North Philadelphia 2008-2014. I was pretty broke all the time, so getting actual liquor to drink was an occasional luxury. I li...

I met my best friend during my freshman year at Tyler School of Art in 2008. We bonded over The Boondocks, the band Rancid, and comic books. We both wanted to be illustrators. For th...

A smaller work that was both working through different landscape orientation as well as leading up to the 2018 election in the US. This work to me, reflects figures turning there bac...

Symbolism and forgotten memories that fade through years and years. This is my abstract interpretation of understanding my own brain's decision to keep some memories, while deleting ...

This painting has has 547 marks and moves to symbolize each day of a year and half long relationship in my mid-twenties. The painting was done as a self healing therapy process to en...