I find that the immediate and direct process of drawing serves as a means by which I can meditate on the fundamental nature of things. I see image-making as a way of creating not just a physical relationship to concepts, but a sensual and emotional one as well. I want my work to be felt, not just experienced. I want the concepts that I am exploring to resonate with the viewer on a basic visceral level. Like Niels Bohr's self-titled model once served to make the concept of an atom's structure visually and conceptually accessible, so too am I interested in employing my art and the process of drawing as a way of visualizing and graphically realizing concepts which speak to a layer of reality beyond the senses, bringing such concepts back into a world of physical relationships that we can more readily relate to and grasp.
Artist Biography
Gregory Brellochs is a Philadelphia-based artist, Professor, and the Visual and Performing Arts, Chair at Camden County College in Blackwood, New Jersey. Brellochs' work has been recognized through awards such as the 2018 Meyer's Family Award for Contemporary Arts, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists CDP Fellowship, the Wind Challenge Exhibition Series at the Fleisher Art Memorial, and the William D. Davis Award for Drawing at the Art of the State Exhibition in Harrisburg, PA. Brellochs has held numerous solo exhibitions and has been featured in a number of prestigious juried and curated group exhibitions, both regionally and nationally. His work is included in the contemporary drawings collection of the Viewing Program through The Drawing Center in New York City. Brellochs earned his B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and an M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Education
2004 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA M.F.A.
1997 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA B.F.A.
Awards & Honors
2019 Works on Paper II, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Juror’s Award
2018 Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art
The Woodmere Annual: 77th Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Juror’s Award
2011 Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA William D. Davis Memorial Award
2009 Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA Career Development Program Fellowship
Works on Paper 2009, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ Juror’s Award
2007 The Wind Challenge Exhibitions Series, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA Award Recipient
2004 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Independence Foundation Nominee, 2005, MFA Faculty Nomination
1997 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Graduation with Distinction
Residencies
2019 ArtLab at the Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, Pembroke, VA
Artist Registries
2006 - Present The Drawing Center: Viewing Program, New York, NY
Professional experience
2005 - Present Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ Professor, Visual Arts, Coordinator (since 2014) Visual and Performing Arts, Chair (since 2018)
Guest Lectures, Juror, Artist Talks & Panel Discussions
2019 Works on Paper, The Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA Juror
2018 Camden County Senior Show, Cherry Hill, NJ Juror
2016 Swarthmore University, Swarthmore, PA Visiting artist
2014 Art Blooms, Cherry Hill Township Art Exhibit, Cherry Hill, NJ Juror
2012 University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, La Crosse, WI Guest speaker and visiting critic
Works on Paper, Medford Art Center, Medford, NJ Juror
2011 Art Blooms, Cherry Hill Township Art Exhibit, Cherry Hill, NJ Juror
2010 Middlesex County College, Middlesex, NJ Free Form artist talk
2009 "An Intersection of Art, Science and Philosophy through the Art of Gregory Brellochs," Lawrence College, Appleton, WI Guest speaker and visiting critic
2007 Wind Challenge Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA Artist talk
Bucks County College, Newtown, PA microBiophilia panel discussion
Exhibitions
Solo
2018 What IS & What If, 14th Annual Betsey Meyer Memorial Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
Gregory Brellochs, Allens Lane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Quintessence, Duke Gallery, Wallingford, PA
2012 Immersion, Marlin Gallery at Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ
2009 Biomorphic, Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY
2008 Symbiote Hybrids, AXD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007 The Wind Challenge Exhibitions 2007-2008, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Material_Mind, Clay College at Cumberland County College, Millville, NJ
2006 An Evolution of Form, Marlin Gallery at Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ
Geomorphic, Clay College at Cumberland County College, Millville, NJ
2005 Organicist Sculpture and Drawing, Clay College at Cumberland County College, Millville, NJ
2004 Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Current Drawings, Opus One, Munich, Germany
Two and Three Person
2020 Growth Determined, HOT•BED Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Visions of Biophilia, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Evolving Dynamics, Azavea, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Eric Preisendanz
2015 Microverse, The Haverford School, Haverford, PA
2013 Discovery and Perception, Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA Curator: Susan Cotes
2012 Abstractions, Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ Curators: Philip Carrol and Karen Chigouinis
2011 Lay of the Land, Bluestone Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 The Imagined, CDP Fellowship Spotlight Exhibition, CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Other Worlds, AXD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group
2020 NATURphilosophie, 1241 Artspace, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Brooke Hein
2019 Downriver in the Multiverse, Alumni Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA Jurors: Janet Koplos, Rachelle Mozman Solano, Dr. Marin R. Sullivan
Your Plus One, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
Works on Paper II, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Juror: Rochelle Toner
2018 The Line Miami @ Aqua Art Fair, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL
The Woodmere Annual: 77th Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Juror: Syd Carpenter
Navigating Elements, 2018 Arts Annual Exhibition, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ Jurors: Ysable Pinyol and Jodi Throckmorton
2015 The Woodmere Annual: 74th Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Jurors: The Dufala Brothers
Cosmos: Imagining the Universe, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Dowell, MD
2014 Snowflake Salon, 110 Church Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA Juror: Linda Francis
Surface, Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA Juror: Lorraine Riesenbach
2013 Curious Investigations, Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA Curator: Susan Cotes
CFEVA Artists at the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia, PA
Art Mobile, Bucks County, PA Curator: Joan Menapace
Transformation, Flying Kite, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Why Drawing?, University of Wisconsin La Crosse, La Crosse, WI Curator: John Ready
Artists and Their Mentors, Gallery 50, Bridgeton, NJ
Annual Juried Exhibition, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2011 Black and White, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
2010 The Philadelphia Artist Salon on the Main Line, Lower Merion, PA
Between the Studio and Facebook, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA Curator: Chuck Thurow
Material Motion, Dalet Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Amie Potsic
Free Form, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ Curator: Mary Salvante
CFEVA Fellows, Middlesex County College, Middlesex, NJ
2009 CFEVA Exchange, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Works on Paper 2009, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ Jurors: Syd Sachs, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery
Vitreous: Of Optics and Seeing, Esther Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Art + Soul Food, MM Partners, Philadelphia, PA
Treasures, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, Philadelphia, PA
Introduction ’09, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Grand Small Works, F.U.E.L Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Street Button, Winter Invitational 2007, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Curators: Claire Iltis, Heather Shoemaker, and William Pym
microBiophilia, The Hicks Gallery at Bucks County College, PA Curator: Susan Hagen
2005 Faculty Exhibition, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
2004 Works on Paper 2004, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA Juror: Jordan Kantor, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art, NY
5 into 1, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA Jurors: Paul Hubbard and Lucartha Kohler
1999 Thomas Art Exhibition, Thomas Architects and Engineers, Ithaca, NY
1997 Senior Show, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
The Crosby Show, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
