Bruce W. Herman

Bruce Herman
Lothlórien Distinguished Chair
Art, Painting
B.F.A., M.F.A. Boston University

Bruce Herman’s work speaks for itself: artist, essayist, speaker, professor.

His multifaceted work also speaks for Gordon College: For nearly thirty years, Bruce has been instrumental in the founding and flourishing of the College's art major. Now the Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in the Fine Arts, he remains a catalyst for change at Gordon—transforming blank canvas into lush image, an old gymnasium into a first-class center for the arts, fledgling artists into mature, inspired painters.

Bruce joined the faculty in 1984 becoming the first Art Department chair in 1988. His primary focus as a teacher and artist is figurative painting. He received the Junior Distinguished Faculty Award in 1992 and was awarded the first fully-endowed Distinguished Chair at Gordon in 2006. His art has been exhibited internationally and is housed in museums such as the Vatican Museum in Rome, the Armand Hammer Collection in Los Angeles, and locally at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA.

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• Bruce Herman's website
   
• Selected portfolio
   
• Selected Publications and Presentations:
  
  • "iPod, iPerson, iTechnology," STILLPOINT, Spring 2007
  • "Thoughts on Setting Out," STILLPOINT, Fall 2006 
  • "Il Corpo Spezzato," 2005
  • "Breaking / Open: Postmodernism and the Return of the Religious Element in Art," 2003
  • "My Body for you-Meditations on Sacrifice as a Theme in My Paintings"
  • "Theology on Tap," Friends of the Advent, 2003