Median

There's an article at Shutterstock about how to take a personless picture of a crowded place using Photoshop's statistical scripts. My first thought, of course, is: what happens if you do this with a stack of photos of different things? Are the artifacts it generates interesting?
I have a series of digital drawings I've been making for 10 years, made according to a formula of nude models drawn with colors sampled from a background of satellite space photography. I did this to all 50 of them, and this is the result:

That's pretty cool.
Then I did it to my grad thesis paintings, which don't even have up and down orientations, to see whether I had compositional tendencies with those:

It doesn't really know what to do when you tell it to automatically align things. I'm going to keep playing with this and see if I can get the other statistical options to do anything interesting besides black, white, and gray blocks. There's something fascinating about using a formula made to find signal on noise.

résumé

Janet Bruesselbach

janet@bruesselbach.com 69-60 108^th St. Apt. 517

(310) 617-3366 Forest Hills, NY 11375

I’m a figurative oil painter, designer, curator and writer looking to join my energy and intelligence with others involved with culture, sustainability, science and technology.

Employment History

2010 Enumerator for the U.S. Census Bureau Non-Response Follow-Up operation.

- Temporary May-June position interviewing at addresses that hadn’t mailed in their decennial census questionnaires. Responsible for keeping personal information confidential, pursuing proxy sources, and working mixed hours on my own schedule.

Supervisor: Danny Weiss, d.aryeh.weiss@gmail.com (917) 214-3027

2009- Curator of A Gathering of the Tribes gallery, 285 E 3^rd St. New York, NY 10009 www.tribes.org

- Coordinated with and selected artists for shows in an alternative exhibition space owned by

Steve Cannon. (212) 674-8262

- Art Editor for Issue 13 of A Gathering of the Tribes literary magazine.

2006- Bookseller, Shakespeare & Co., 716 Broadway, New York, NY (212) 529-1330 Rebecca Lambrecht - Retail clerk responsible for friendly customer service, register, shelving, textbooks, stock.

2006-2008 Information Clerk, Board of Elections.

- On election days, I guided voters to their appropriate districts at my local polling site.

Queens Board of Elections (718) 730-6730

2007 Library Assistant, New York Academy of Art. Reference: Kristine Paulus, Kristine@nyaa.edu

2007 Intern, Location One nonprofit arts organization, 26 Greene St., NYC

Steve Cukierski, steve@location1.org, artists Ligorano/Reese

2007 Art Director, Chromed Productions. Game design.

Irfaan Chaudhry, irfaanc@gmail.com; Adam Kenney, adam.kenney@chromed.com

2006 Intern, Society of Illustrators, 128 E. 63^rd St. New York, NY 10021 (212) 838-2560

2005-2006 Gallery Installer for RISD Exhibitions, 62 Prospect St.. Providence, RI 02903

Supervisor: Mark Moscone, mmoscone@risd.edu, (401) 454-6141

2004 Intern, Tor Books, 175 5^th Ave., New York, NY with art director Irene Gallo, Irene.gallo@tor.com

Education

2007-2009 Master of Fine Arts in Painting, New York Academy of Art

111 Franklin St., New York, NY 10013 www.nyaa.edu

Studied with John Jacobsmeyer, Catherine Howe, Nicola Verlato, Will Cotton, and Kurt Kauper

2002-2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration, and Concentration in European History

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) 2 College St. Providence, RI

1999-2002 Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences.

21^st St. Santa Monica, CA. (310)829-7391 GPA: 3.8 SAT: 720V 710M

Other Education

2005 Summer program in painting and history, Rome, Italy

2004 Summer Art/Technology History class at Columbia, New York, NY

2001-2003 Summer classes in Astronomy, Microbiology, Science Fiction, Baroque Art. UCLA, CA.

2001-2002 California Art Institute, Westlake, CA.

1994-2002 O’Neill Fine Art Studio, Malibu, CA.

Exhibitions & Awards

April 2010 The Girleye Show – Curator of feminist photography exhibition with Beth Hommel, Cassie Olander, Lauren Goldberg and Marie Hansen. A Gathering of the Tribes, 285 E 3^rd St. NYC

October 2009 Nothing For Itself at A Gathering of the Tribes, 285 E 3^rd St. New York, NY

May 2009 A Figurative Reconstruction, New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St, NYC

December 2007 Sebrof International at the New York City Hungarian Cultural Institute

2006 RAINN t-shirt art competition winner

3/2-3/7, 2006 3-Person Senior Show, RISD Illustration Gallery, Providence, RI

May 2005 Burleson Painting Competition, First Place Junior Award

10/28-11/5, 2004 Junior Show (Organizer & Exhibitor), RISD Illustration Gallery, Providence, RI

Skills - Traditional representational painting, photography, instruction in old and new art media

- Gallery administration and maintenance.

- Communication, writing, editing, copy editing, blogging, social media

- Computer game and user interface design, project coordination, graphic design print and web

- Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office , Maya, Mac, Windows, html , css, php