Janet Bruesselbach

#Lunoids are fully on actual sale now! Pick up one of the 20 or so remaining #calendars or an on-demand archivaI #print of my 12 colorful #robot #paintings. I can't guarantee delivery by the 24th at this point, but by the New Year, for sure. Look for "shop" among my profile links.

Check out work by Janet Bruesselback at 43-01 21st Street, LIC NY Studio 122a May 16 & 17, 12pm -6pm Bruesselbach uses figurative oil painting toward speculative realism, melding human intimacy with radical relationships to technology. The artist’s imaginative experiment seeks cyborg feminism, representing embodied subjects, captured during conversational live poses, within non-representational, generative spaces. Its influences manifest as emphatic lucidity and pulp surrealistic excess moderated with pragmatic humor. Movements evade dominant narratives, aiming to celebrate queer humans and queerer concepts with diverse community engagement. Compositions often deliberately challenge expectations of spatial orientation, setting, consistency, and aesthetic values, driven by sensual exuberance.

Osterane #Solaroids 3, 2026, oil on canvas, 24x28in. Model @mx.alycorn Might do some more work on this, but wanted to post for #EarthDay #OilPainting #SFArt #ultramarineblue

Mark your calendar! I'll be opening my garish art hole as part of LIC Arts Open @licartsopen May 16-17, 12-6p, 43-01 21st St 122A (right near the front door!) Other shows probably across the hall, other studios up some stairs, boo to my building refusing to use freight elevators.

“Antifa Praying Mantises In Love” #AnalogImagination 12, 2026, oil on wood panel, 10×10in. Prompt by Ant. Counter "AI" series where I make paintings from your submitted verbal prompts (now closed), without any reference. All images from this series are free to use. On auction with The 10x10 to benefit @licartsopen 2026, April 23 at @nyirishcenter ! Subscribe to my newsletter please #HumanArtist #OilPainting #OriginalArt #Illustration

The ARTist, 2026, oil on canvas, 36x42in. #SelfPortrait #OilPainting #Surrogate #EarthPigments #pregnant

St Paddy's Tuesday @qns_drink_n_draw with @belladonnabienvenue at @everyonecomics Pencil, pen, marker on paper

Two Beloved Monsters in Yas, Queen! An @licartists show curated by Karen Gormandy @fountainhousegallery & Issa Ibrahim @issaibrahim065 , opening next Wednesday evening at our Factory gallery space.

What if robots could tell the story of becoming yourself, one delicious color at a time? We visited Janet Bruesselbach (grad 2009), painter and alum of the @newyorkacademyofart It’s studio was filled with vibrant, humaniform robots and other creatures. These figures felt playful, expressive, and deeply alive. Janet welcomed us with enthusiasm, sharing how many of these characters began as “dream monsters,” inspired by people they know and transformed through imagination, humor, and a maximalist love of color. It gives a voice to the nonbinary queer experience. It’s project, Lunoids, is a monthly oil‑painting cycle created throughout 2025. Each painting depicts a pinup‑style humaniform robot themed to a specific month, occupation, and color, arranged in a clock‑like palette of organic synthetic pigments. Drawing from Sebring & Rocha’s Study of Pose, Janet reinterprets these figures with specialized body types as segmented, mechanized, and shaped through a fully hand‑driven, non‑AI “artist‑automatizing” process. The series grows out of their long engagement with speculative fiction and labor ethics, bringing bold, maximalist aesthetics into a materials‑driven fine art framework. Janet is now developing a sequel series for 2026 titled Solaroids! Aliens mapped to eight pigments, semi‑seasonally and to planets. The result is a world of colorful, expressive robots that feel both futuristic and deeply human, paintings that stretch the boundaries of figurative art and invite viewers into a universe where imagination, embodiment, and storytelling meet. The colors practically glow. This visit is part of our ongoing New York Academy of Art studio visit series, highlighting the diverse practices and creative paths of NYAA alumni. We’ve already visited several studios, and we’re excited to continue building this growing archive of artists and their evolving work. If you’re an NYAA alum and would like to be part of this series, feel free to comment below or click the link in bio. Thank you, Janet, for the incredible visit and for welcoming us into your studio and your brilliantly painted universe. 📸 @jacqueline.la.divine

Imvestarx #Solaroids 2, March 2026, oil on canvas, 24x24in. #alien #dioxazineviolet #ostara #venus Initial pose by @lavenderskeleton (art/design) @pushing.down.daisies (erotic art) @lavenderscare_thedragthing (performance)

C4 #Paleofacture 27, 2026, oil on canvas, 16x16in. #sciart #grass #yellow #scifi Up to about the Miocene and its photosynthetic innovations, and nearly done with this weird little series about evolutionary technology in deep time.

More @drink_n_draw with model @wunmiaramiji - Procreate for iPad #astrae , conte pencil gestures, acrylic paint, rollerball. #figuredrawing I can never get cropping to work on this awful platform. Find me on bluesky.