Bruce Herman

Bruce Herman (born 1953) is an artist who holds the Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in the art department of Gordon College. He achieved both a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and a Master of Fine Arts from the School for the Arts at Boston University, where he studied under Philip Guston, James Weeks, David Aronson, Reed Kay, and Arthur Polonsky.^[1] He joined the faculty at Gordon College in 1984 and was awarded various chairs and positions until he was awarded the aforementioned position.^[2] His work has been exhibited around the world, and has paintings housed in the Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art, the Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts, and the DeCordova Museum.^[1] Between 1983 and 2011 he has been a part of more than 50 exhibitions, and has been invited to do nearly 50 lecture series.^[3] He is working on a series of paintings for an artistic, literary, and theological tour in response to T.S. Eliot's set of four poems known as the Four Quartets.^[4]