Local artist and BU alum speaks on importance of following passions →

Harpur College alumnus Anthony Brunelli came to campus Friday to speak to students about the importance of living in the moment and of embracing their thoughts and emotions — even if it means going against the grain.

Brunelli, who graduated in 1992, makes photorealist oil paintings which have been shown in museums in Paris, Florence, Prague and more. Photorealism is a type of art in which the artist recreates a photograph as realistically as possible using another medium. Brunelli opened his own art gallery, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts Gallery, on State Street in 2003 and manages it with his brother John.

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Getting Real with Anthony Brunelli →

Anthony Brunelli with his painting, Paradeplatz, the famous square in Zurich

Anthony Brunelli with his painting, Paradeplatz, the famous square in Zurich

“Anthony Brunelli is a world-renowned photo-realist painter from Binghamton, N.Y.  … Early in his career, Anthony’s depictions of Binghamton, and the surrounding small cities of Upstate N.Y., captured the essence of the small town American landscape.  Most recently, Anthony has expanded his subject matter to the urbanscape abroad. and has painted cities such as Paris, Florence, Prague, Zurich, and Hanoi to name a few….”

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Chair made of grass at art gallery →

Binghamton (WIVT) – Art lovers visiting Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts gallery in Binghamton over the weekend did a double take when they happened upon a chair made of grass.

“Green” Chair is the creation of artist and horticulturalist Josh DeMarree.

DeMarree works at the Binghamton University greenhouses and has married his love of art and botany through sculptures covered in living oat grass.

It’s the same grain fed to livestock and used to create Cheerios.

DeMarree said he grows a 7 by 7 foot square of oat grass in his home using 9 pounds of seeds and then drapes it over sculptures.

He said he loves seeing how fascinated people are with the chair.

“It’s super vibrant green and it’s super fleshy. If you were here, people wanted to touch it. It’s very tactile. And it’s not like grass out in your yard, which is thin. This has a little bit of weight to it and the green is really consistent,” said DeMarree.

Gallery goers are allowed to gently pet the chair but not sit in it.

The oat grass is already aging and turning yellow.

Your last chance to see it is this Saturday.

The gallery on State Street opens at noon, however, DeMarree said the plan is that starting at about 12:30, baby miniature goats will begin eating it.

His next project is to create a entire living room covered in oat grass.

For Brunelli brothers, art runs in the family →

Gallery owner, Anthony Brunelli, with gallery director, John Brunelli, pose in front hyperrealistic paint tubes by artist Ray Gross

Gallery owner, Anthony Brunelli, with gallery director, John Brunelli, pose in front hyperrealistic paint tubes by artist Ray Gross

Siblings combine gallery, artwork and education in one Binghamton location

As a child, Anthony Brunelli used to copy Charles Schulz comics.

Then, younger brother John copied him. “I used to copy him, copying him,” John said.

From a young age, the Brunelli brothers, of Binghamton, knew art would be a big part of their lives.

They are the duo behind the Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts gallery in downtown Binghamton: Anthony, a renowned painter, owns it, and John is the gallery director.

“It’s not an occupation,” Anthony said of art. “It’s a way of life.”


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Art world siblings paint 2 different ways to avoid becoming the starving artist trope →

Brunelli brothers headline alum gallery

Every five years, Binghamton University opens the halls of its art museum to host original works by BU’s alumni. Spanning over 50 years of graduating classes, the 2014 Alumni Art Show is the first alumni exhibit to be juried. Diane Butler, the director of the museum, along with her colleagues Kevin Hatch and : Mijatovic, carefully selected the best 24 pieces from over 50 submissions. While there is no central theme to the show, Butler and her colleagues wanted to show pieces that incorporated different media as well as conceptual pieces that are focused more on being thoughtful than aesthetically beautiful.

The show opened on Thursday night, with a reception at 5 p.m. The event featured a presentation by Anthony Brunelli, a commercially successful photorealist painter who graduated from BU in 1992. Brunelli first came to fame with a series of paintings depicting scenes from Downtown Binghamton. His “Views of Binghamton” can be seen in offices all over the city.

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