All are welcome to attend the opening reception for Jim Brossy’s upcoming exhibition at the Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University. His work will be on display July 4 through October 3, 2026. Meet the artist and enjoy live music and light refreshments. 

More about Jim Brossy’s “Crackpot Realism”: 

Crackpot Realism is an artistic approach that dissolves the boundaries between art and life by emphasizing relationships between materials, ideas, emotions, and lived experience as the source of meaning and beauty. Rather than representing reality, the artwork exists as a real object in real space, inviting interaction between physical materials and mental associations. By combining traditional media with unconventional “non-art” materials such as tar, cement, wax, steel, and found objects, Crackpot Realism creates new forms that balance spontaneity and resistance, immediacy and labor. Assemblage, collage, and text function not as supplements but as integral elements, with written language operating visually and politically to allow works to be read on multiple levels. Through rhythm, pattern, and material presence governed by natural forces, Crackpot Realism constructs emotional and contemplative experiences that connect inner and outer worlds, offering a disorienting yet deeply felt abstract realism grounded in lived reality.