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The Passed Past is Present
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The time that moved forward from the memories and time experienced, makes up the moment in real time.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Comprehending Accountability
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Regardless of what decision and action, the importance of reflection and taking responsibility for your own place in outcomes and not blaming outside factors alone.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Bruxing Consternation
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Moments when you have to clench your hands, muscles and teeth in order to push through and make it forward.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
La Chance De Surmonter La Mort Subite
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Remembering moments that were so very close to horrific, but the fortune to live in the probability that it did not.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Fortitude Still Present
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The importance of using the memories of hardships, pain and trauma, as validation of resilience and validation to keep going.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Unwilling Confrontation of a Repressed Mirror
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
We can all ignore seeing our own traumatic experiences in others as the brain tries to protect our emotions. Inevitably you will have to face it to be there for others and simultaneo...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Though No Longer Tangible, It Never Ceased to Exist
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The buildings, roads, houses, streets, and the memories that are forever burned in the mind are physically demolished, redone and have moved on in time since the time and place you o...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Cherophobia
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
According to the internet: Cherophobia, derived from the Greek word "chairo" meaning "to rejoice," is the fear of happiness or an aversion to activities that could bring joy.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Insufficient Allowance of Irredeemable Grace
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
grace and forgiveness are long sought after. when it does exist, it may feel underserving.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
A Purified Previously Torn and Lacerated Persona
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The memory of your life story can become broken and disconnected from moment to moment in self narrative. Once in a while there can be a beautiful moment of clarity and connection in...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Taking the Opportunity to Breathe and Exhale; A Brief Respite
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The luck to end a year and enter a new one. After enduring the story of struggle of existence thus far, and having a moment of clarity to just accept the beauty in the hardships.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Succumbing a Desperate Compulsory Amalgamation
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Entering in mid adulthood, actions are made. whether a career commitment, parenting, partnership, etc. it can be reactionary. but it is without repercussion and impossible to "redo" ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Ignoring the Contingent Admonition of Self and Selves
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A continuous, and assumed, accidentally ignorance of seeing ones existence separate and passing others, as they do you, and missing the connection of experience and conversation.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
A Consistent and Ceaseless Momentum
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Even though it easy to get stuck and ruminate on the past, life does not wait and continues in a forward trajectory.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Insufficient Time to Respectfully Mull Over What Has Happened
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Contemporary life is so packed with more complex chaos on top of a personal existence. its ever increasing seems to make it harder to sit down and remember what has happened and what...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
There Was a Return Home; A Place I Had Never Been and Always Came From
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
being in the moment, living it in. beginning to end. the was, were and will be. all at the same. and its weird.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
An Attempted and Calculated Navigation of Uncharted and Assumed Point A to Point
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
simply about realizing that living and existing is existing in an unprecedented future based on so many variables. but we grow up thinking that there is a path, and our elders try to...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
An Ever Increasing Weight of Burden and Unescapable Compassion
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
every year goes on. being and caring and listening to others, whoever and how close you are and care and empathize and sympathize and take in, and as the world does and society does,...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
To Remember: Similar and Familiar; Yet Increasingly Unreliable
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
waking up everyday we automatically go through the day based on the lessons and life or experience from all the days before. but each day it gets different and less recognizable. sam...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
The Intersection of What Is, What Was, What Ought to Be, and What May Very Well
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
i have a punishingly vivid memory of places, moments, occurences. a lot of them are great or benign. but the hard ones are equal. and i hope to always use those memories towards the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
After the Sun Faded and the Constellations Plummeted, I Never Felt Such Poise
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
i have been so fortunate to witness a lifetime eclipse and lay on a cold beach looking at stars and worrying about missles while holding hands with another26
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Witnessing the Presence of Watching the Observer of the Incognizant
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Remembering reliving the nostalgic memory of your past, who you are now, but have no idea who you will be3500
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
It Passed in the Slow Distance; A Congenial Slumber
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
the past looks like a tunnel when you turn around, but its important to find comfort and understanding in it to sleepthe past looks like a tunnel when you turn around, but its import...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
What is Called Wilderness is Now Called Peace
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The world was once and still seen as the wild and the civilized. colonialization and the development of the world post argues that they will bring peace to the places that were once ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
It Was Once Here, and I Was Once There
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Trying to come to terms with consciousness and time. how we change and try to remember all the memories now not as trusted as once was.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
And To Witness Again, It Could Not Be Longer
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
if reincarnation or a loop in quantum time exists, it could not compare to what it has been in this experience.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Attempting to Grasp What The Glass Cannot Contain
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
We can only perceive and control so much as a human. Yet we all constantly demand more to avoid the inevitability of time.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
I’m Different and It’s Different, but We Are Both the Same
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Everyday we wake up in a room. It's the same, similar. but its different. and every time you wake up in the room there are more memories.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Where I Was and Where I Don’t Want to Be
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Listings with rich descriptions are 40% more likely to sell and this was made 3 months leading up to my divorce.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
So Engulfed in Making One; The Point Was Left Meaningless
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
It is so easy, within our nature and defense mechanisms to get so heated, riled up, loud and confrontational, that we can forget what we are trying to stand up for, argue for, and th...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Long Story Short: It was Both... Breathtaking and Meaningless
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The last year of my life, and life in general, has been a whirlwind of experiences. In a physical sense, I was fortunate enough to travel and show my work around the country and wor...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
The Calming Content of the Endurance
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Life is a long journey of harshness, honesty, brutality and mistakes. But it is validated in the experience and in the recognition of the the finite.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Anguish Revisited
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
There is so much in not only dealing with existing, but the endless chaos and factors surrounding and stimulating whatever this is. As I've gotten older its been harder to find the n...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Where I Tried to Escape; What Beckons My Return
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
I tried to escape the farm town i grew up in and moved to the city. the city became home. I then left to start a family. Life happens and things change. I returned to the city, but n...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Photophobia
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
My best friend always told me i have black eyes. They are dark, but black eyes dont exist. Everyone with brighter eyes told me the light hurts their eyes and head. Life only hurts m...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
The Last Thing I Have to Take Apart Before I Rebuild an Entire Life
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Moving, restarting, unboxing, organizing, all to start the right way after all previous experience
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
My Eyes Did Not Deceive; It Was Not a Mirage
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sometimes life and existence can feel like a prison. you dont know when it started and where it came from. hopeless can feel real. but there is still always what you were wondering t...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
I Used to Reckon Where I Would Be
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Memories of being 5 and my dad showing my the Kingston Trio and Harry Belafonte and him singing along. I miss that.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
It Once Felt Like an Eternity, Is Now All Too Short
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Parched and Determined/Graves to Beginnings
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
For Every Place I Could Not Stay; For Every Word I Could Not Say
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Working on Common Ground. There Is No Soil
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Humans learned to make a home. Humans learned to survive. Humans learned to applaud martyrs.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
In Awe: Hail and Fire
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
A Necessary Return; A Humbled Resumption
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Witnessing a Familiar Setting with Seasoned Eyes
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
After a distress of traumatic event, reflection, acceptance, and continuance, one can revisit the world in a less stark and depressing manner.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
A Blur of Necessary Travels, Events and Return to Form
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
An Attempt at Self Preservation with Minimal Casualties
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
The Vivid Evocation of Suppression
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sometimes when life changes over the years, one can try to adjust. Sometimes this becomes suppressing the authentic self. This is a mistake.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
As the Flowers Died, There Then Came the Flies
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Time(Less) Ap(art)
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The time in-between loss and breakups are difficult, whether family, friends or lovers. I tend to cope by making art. Recently I went through a lot and I found myself making less b...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
So it started here, and then we met so and so, we got to there, and then this ha
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Listings with rich descriptions are 40% more likely to sell and this was made when I filed for divorce.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Sincere Apologies For the Mess I’ve Become
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Listings with rich descriptions are 40% more likely to sell and this was made while trying to ignore my inevitable divorce.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
(An Attempt at) A Structured Retelling of Events
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
A Time So Far From Here, I Do Not Believe It Exists
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A place and a time that I have never visited but would like to stay at.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Those Late Kensington Nights
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A nostalgic memory of my first house and first studio in Kensington, Philadelphia.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Nowhere is Now Home
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Hands Last Held by the Festival Wheel
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
How to Dismantle Completely
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
I Do Not Know How Much Time Passed, But I Do Know It Was a While
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sometimes we can stare out, space out and be content losing track of time.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
The Fool's Pursuit
By Brian Jerome
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
