Janet Bruesselbach was raised by scientists in California in the 1980s. She attended RISD for a BFA in Illustration (2006), and the New York Academy of Art for an MFA in figurative painting (2009). She parents a young human and works out of Queens, NY.

The artist’s work limns speculative realism in the social position of figurative oil painting. Its imaginative experiment seeks cyborg feminism, representing embodied subjects within non-representational, generative spaces. Its network of biological mechanism and historical influence manifests as emphatic lucidity and pulp surrealistic excess moderated with pragmatic humor. The artist is primarily a portraitist seeking to celebrate eccentric and marginalized members of its community.

Movements are always evading dominant narratives, orienting to and aiming to benefit humans whose lives diversify potential realities. Compositions often deliberately challenge expectations of spatial orientation, setting, linguistic consistency, and aesthetic values, while still being driven by instinctive preferences of beauty and an embrace of sensual and popular imagery and themes.