Personal Space

Personal Space explores how individuals occupy public space, revealing the tension between isolation and proximity in everyday urban life. Through fragmentation and juxtaposition, the work transforms fleeting encounters into meditations on anonymity and human spatial dynamics.

Featuring the photographic series Personal Space and Waiting Room, this 13 × 11 inch hardcover volume includes a linen cover with printed wrap, an introductory essay, and 16 full-color plates.

Arthur Bruso is an artist, curator and arts writer. He received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. His work is sometimes based on his studies in esoteric symbolism and sometimes based on his upbringing in an Italian-American community in Albany, NY. He constantly revisits the past whether in European Medieval cathedrals, defunct victorian museums, and abandoned cemeteries. He has exhibited in the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, the Rice Gallery at Albany Institute of History and Art, New Jersey State Museum Trenton, LaMamma LaGalleria in New York and many other venues. Arthur Bruso received a 2025 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He currently is co-Director of Curious Matter, a non-profit project space.