Background
Anthony Brunelli was born in 1968 in Plattsburgh, New York, United States. He has a brother named John Brunelli.
2014
Antony Brunelli with a fellow painter Tony Bennett in Brunelli’s Binghamton Studio in August 2014.
60 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, OH 43215, United States
Columbus College of Art and Design where Anthony Brunelli did his studies.
4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Binghamton, NY 13902, United States
Binghamton University where Anthony Brunelli earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Anthony Brunelli was born in 1968 in Plattsburgh, New York, United States. He has a brother named John Brunelli.
Anthony Brunelli revealed his passion for drawing and sketching as a child producing his first drawings at the age of three. The boy developed his flairs sketching from comics at home and in school. He earned sweets from his classmates for his drawings.
Brunelli’s mother was an artist, and he spent a lot of time in her studio. In fact, Brunelli’s parents always encouraged their son’s passion.
In the beginning, he wanted to become a cartoonist or illustrator. The impression from Chuck Close’s large-scale paintings and a haphazard encounter with the artist at one exhibition in Pace Gallery pushed Brunelli from cartoons and advertising toward the world of Fine Art.
Anthony Brunelli studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio, and then received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Binghamton University.
Anthony Brunelli started his career from the cityscapes he created in Binghamton and the small satellite cities of the Northern part of New York. Then, he extended the boundaries of his locations and added to the collection of his hyperrealistic panoramas the canvases that reflected the atmosphere of such cities like Paris, Florence, Prague, Zurich, Hanoi, and others.
In 2003, along with his brother John, he founded Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts Gallery in Binghamton. Nowadays, as an active participant of the local artistic life, Brunelli aids his fellows through this contemporary art space.
The exclusive representative of Brunelli’s art in New York City is Louis K. Meisel Gallery.
Depot at Dusk
The Return
Pont Alexander
Banana Lady (Hanoi)
Infinity
Pescheria Brunelli
Monument Square (Troy)
Court and Chenango
Lackawanna Morning
Chenango River
Tony's
Historic Owego
Tioga County
Jack Danielson's
Rolls Touring
Trinity Church
Union Square Delicatessen
Candy Street
Floating Market
Fraumunster at Night
Grossmunster Reflection
Charles Bridge
Straw Market
Arno at Dusk
Bonkers (St. Andrews, Scotland)
Prato Della Valle, Padua
View of Florence
Plaza Mayor
Hanoi Market 2.0
View of Binghamton
Quotations:
"The things I look for, intersections, aerial views, centers of commerce where people mill about, and now market scenes, are similar, but have a different cultural look to them. The main thing that changes is the light."
"I have never been into sketching. With Photorealism, you pretty much know what you are going to get when you have the photograph complete. For me, the “sketching” is when I am there at the location doing the photography. I look at a scene from many angles and in different kinds of light. I take massive amounts of photos so that I can have many options. [...] A photograph captures a moment in time; my paintings catch moments of a particular scene the way I want to see them."
"I am not a camera − that is a machine that has limitations. My hope is that my essence comes through in my paintings. I usually know right away, at the moment of photographing it, if a particular scene is worthy of a possible ten-month time commitment. When the hairs on my arms begin to stand up at a particular location, I know."
"I have never kept any of my work. I am very grateful that everything has sold over the last 25 years. The way I feel is, I own the process and that the finished product is for someone else. I feel no ownership towards my work and probably if I was not selling it, I would give it away."
"I have an assumption that everything in art has been done before. For me, I think, ” how can I make it own”? Why was I put on this earth at this time and what can I share with my audience. I love being influenced by other artists. It is one of the biggest turns on when I see somebody’s art that makes me wish I did that. I often look at it and wonder what I could do differently with it."