Brezinka Design Co.

Name: Brezinka Design Co.
Address: Nashville, TN, US
Telephone: 615.497.2549

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Brezinka Design Co. An award-winning artist and illustrator based in Nashville.

03/12/2025

The Way It Is

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.
You don’t ever let go of the thread.

~ William Stafford, American poet and pacifist

ARTWORK: Hummingbird on Green, mixed media collage on wood panel, 8 x 8 inches. Tap link in bio to see more.

03/11/2025

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Captured this on my walk this morning. Old Hickory Lake sunrise, March 11, 2025.

How do we cope in this season of unrelenting and unpredictable change where every day seems to bring new reasons for worry?

For me personally, art is an important tool for processing it all.

I’ve been inspired to create and offer an ALL-NEW 2 Day Workshop in Nashville, TN this summer!

Re-Mixing Mixed Media
Weathering The Storm
June 28-29

We will use abstract and mixed media art techniques to delve into creative self-expression as a means to explore, transform, and release anxiety and agitation.

In this workshop, we will be incorporating both group exercises and time for you to create your own work.

JOIN US! Tap link in bio for details.

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03/10/2025

How do we cope in this season of unrelenting and unpredictable change where every day seems to bring new reasons for worry?

For me personally, art is an important tool for processing it all.

I’ve been inspired to create an ALL-NEW 2 Day Workshop in Nashville, TN this summer! June 28-29.

We will use abstract and mixed media art techniques to delve into creative self-expression as a means to explore, transform, and release anxiety and agitation.

In this workshop, we will be incorporating both group exercises and time for you to create your own work.

JOIN US! Tap link in bio for details.

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03/09/2025

LEARN MORE Tap the link in bio to access the FACING WAR online gallery.

03/06/2025

: Sacred and Profane

“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.” — Johnny Cash

66 x 55.5 inches overall, assemblage, cut paper, collage, and mixed media on wood panel, 2016.

Tap link in bio to see the story behind The Man In Black as told through the art of Brezinka’s mixed media portraiture using some of the rarest artifacts from the Cash collection.

03/05/2025

REGARDS by Jeff Tigchelaar

When you stay
home from work
Monday morning and sit
on the deck in the sun
with some tea and a book
creatures
come and investigate that s**t
because they know
you’re not supposed
to be there. A squirrel
applies the brakes atop the fence
having climbed the flip side not expecting
a monster to rise in his sights. A big bumbling bee
hovers like a chopper near your head
and you were going to swat him
but instead you laugh and wave
like a nut because you’re not
at your job and at times
it can be nice to be regarded.

ARTWORK: Detail of ‘Spring Fields’ for Deloitte University Press, 2016. Cut paper, college and mixed media on a wood panel, 20 x 16 inches.

03/04/2025

Trump’s Tariff War: What will become of “We The People?”

COVER ART for Deloitte University Press, United States Economic Forecast Q1. 20” x 16” cut paper, collage and mixed media on wood panel, 2016.

The image seems even more relevant today.

NOTE: The bleeding red stripes of the American flag were a new addition to this 2016 image.

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03/03/2025

Bull In A China Shop. Nuff said . . .

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03/01/2025

Ukraine War Hits Close to Artist’s Heart

“You can say nothing and sit back and do nothing. Or you can use your gift and lean into it. I fully believe art is my gift for the world. It’s a way of communicating what words can’t.” – Wayne Brezinka

Brezinka is lost for words when he attempts to relay his feelings about the invasion of Ukraine, an issue that is close to his heart because of his ancestry. “I saw these devastating pictures of nothing,” he said. “Of ashtrays of land. How could you even begin to rebuild? I had no idea.”

Brezinka’s family comes from Poland. His great grandparents emigrated to the United States in 1892 and started a new life. Their son, John Walter Bre-zinka, was born in the U.S. in 1897. His family shares their name with a town in the southern part of the country - Brzezinka - the location of the Ausch-witz-Birkenau death camp.

“How important it is to honor the past, honor them,” Brezinka said. “Those who have gone before us. We can’t cut that part of ourselves off. They are always with you.”

Many thanks to reporter Molly Davis for her work.

Click link in bio to read the full story.

02/28/2025

Yesterday marked 22 years since the passing of Fred Rogers. Through his timeless work, he continues to remind us of the enduring power of love, kindness, compassion, and acceptance.

Fred McFeely Rogers: March 20, 1928 - February 27, 2003.

A photo during the ‘making-of’ my portrait of Mister Rogers: Just The Way You Are.

Tap link in bio to learn more and see the completed portrait.

02/27/2025

For Travel Section a while back . . .

Tips on Vacationing in Europe, 12 x 9 inches, assemblage, cut paper, collage and mixed media on panel, 2015

Art Director: Corrine Myller

02/26/2025

Landscape Of War, 2022

Mixed media collage including cut-and-pasted newsprint, cloth, acrylic, cardboard, rope and foam core on wood panel, 16 x 12 inches.

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A poem by Robert Bly,
essayist and American poet

“Counting Small-boned Bodies”

If we could only make the bodies smaller
The size of skulls
We could make a whole plain white with skulls in the moonlight!

If we could only make the bodies smaller
Maybe we could get
A whole year’s kill in front of us on a desk!

If we could only make the bodies smaller
We could fit
A body into a finger-ring for a keepsake forever.

02/25/2025

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Slava Ukraini [Glory to Ukraine]

Mixed media collage including cut-and-pasted newsprint, cloth, acrylic, cardboard, rope and foam core on wood panel, 20 x 16 inches.

02/21/2025

Russia’s army crossed the border on Feb. 24, 2022, in an all-out invasion that Putin sought to justify by falsely saying it was needed to protect Russian-speaking civilians in eastern Ukraine and prevent the country from joining NATO.

On Wednesday of this week, Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “ a dictator without elections” and said, “You’ve been there for three years. You should have ended it ... You should have never started it . . .”

How do you battle shameless and provable lies on this scale?

My Great-Grandparents (shown here in this gallery) immigrated from Brzezinka, Poland. My very name Brezinka (Brzezinka) is a village in southern Poland — site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau N**i death camp otherwise known as “Little Auschwitz” — a place of horrific war crimes.

As Ukrainian civilians continue to seek refuge from atrocities at home, a vast majority of refugees have been welcomed by Poland. Given my lineal descent, this tragedy is particularly close to my heart. As Ukrainians continue to fight bravely for freedom and democracy under the leadership of their president, Volodymyr Zelensky, my intent is for this work to serve viewers as a conduit to process outrage and grief, and to express support for the Ukrainian resistance.

This work was created in 2022 for a show entitled, FACING WAR. It is not available for sale. Tap link in bio to learn more.

02/19/2025

It’s a mixed media winter!

02/13/2025

The Art Experience’ for the cover of the Latitudes section of , 2012. Collage and mixed media on canvas. AD,

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02/11/2025

I’m pleased to announce that my portrait of Flannery O’Connor was shortlisted for the 2025 Illustration Annual for consideration.

For 66 years, Communication Arts has honored the craft of talented illustrators and artists from around the world.

Making the shortlist of 423 from 2867 entries is an honor in itself. Thank you, judges and CA magazine.

Flannery O’Connor: There Is Nothing Left to Say of Me, inspired by ‘s sublime film, Wildcat about life and work of the national icon.

02/10/2025

Today in History, St. Paul is ‘thought’ to have been shipwrecked at Malta.

SHOWN HERE: Detail of Saint Paul, the Apostle during the ‘making of’ in my studio.

Only 75 limited edition PRINTS available. Tap link in bio to learn more.

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My latest work is a FREE DOWNLOAD. Kurt Cobain: Box Shaped Heart, 2021 Acrylic, wood, graphite, fabric, cardboard, rope and collected objects on wood panel. 24 x 18 in. Collectors may inquire to purchase: [email protected] Now through November 12, 2021, I'm offering this image as a FREE hi-res download to help expand the conversation surrounding mental health, substance abuse and the often-associated stigma attached. (NOTE: This image must be used in its entirety, and may not be used for reproduction or printing on any items for resale or publication.) SEE a gallery on the making of this work and get your FREE hi-res download HERE https://www.waynebrezinka.com/kurt-cobain Kurt kept his rig in a Tom Moore cigar box like the one I've used here. The contents include: A blacked-up spoon, Q-tips, a fresh syringe, a lighter and cotton balls. October is National Substance Abuse Prevention Month. It is a time to highlight the vital importance of prevention in both individual and community health, to remember those who have lost their lives to addiction, to acknowledge those in recovery, and to recognize children, parents, family, and friends supporting them. I’m fascinated by shapers of cultural shift. My curiosity leads me to investigate their lives through tactile art-making. I gather pieces of everyday, discarded ephemera, and in a process blending painting and sculpture, explore relationships between my subjects, their lives and personal struggles, and our own vulnerabilities and humanity. In the fall of 1991, Kurt Cobain's Seattle-based trio, Nirvana, unleashed a bright and explosive sound comet into the atmosphere that would alter the global course of music and carve a new path for angst, guts, passion and full-on unapologetic grunge. The album 'Nevermind' shifted the world on its axis and 30 years later, shock waves continue to reverberate under the feet of listeners young and old. We are complex individuals, every one of us. We are unique, yet

After 6 months in the making - I am pleased to share with you my latest work. Some may say they are tired of hearing stories of suffering. But where would we be today, and how would we have begun to heal, if everyone who heard our pain had been too tired to listen? 2020 Disrupted: A Re-Assembled Life JOIN US - See this work in-person Saturday, April 24, 2021 in Nashville, TN. FREE ADMISSION Details and RSVP for attendance: https://www.waynebrezinka.com/rsvp In this new work, I am exploring the pain and anxiety of massive disruption and how we are changed by it. This is my attempt to bring a re-imagined 21st century Job to life in a way that encapsulates not only his experience, but also our own. I used a combination of found and repurposed objects, multi-media visuals, and incorporated input from the public, on multiple panels that measure 8-feet by 5-feet -- my largest project to date. "Good art is making people more human, making people more intelligent, sensitive and emotionally pure than they might otherwise be." – Michael Longley, Irish poet Good art has the ability to transform, reshape and redirect one's life. Imagine looking into a mirror or looking at a compass for direction, location and assessment. Fully conscious, taking note of what you see and feel. Make plans to join us Saturday, April 24 and experience this work in-person. Details and RSVP here https://www.waynebrezinka.com/rsvp NOTE: (Masks will be required for all who are able to wear them safely and who may want to see the work in-person) With gratitude and thanks to my friend Richard R. Casper at Creativets for allowing this work to live on their wall for a short time. Much love and light and peace to all – Wayne #Brezinka #MixedMedia #Disrupted

NEW WORK: A behind the scenes look – Join me in making this project a reality! I need your help. Learn more and pledge today here: www.bit.ly/2020Disrupted SHARE this post, COMMENT on it and hit a LIKE to help spread the word. Gracias!! #Brezinka #Disrupted #MixedMedia

2020 has caused more disruption and breaking open than we could have imagined. What will we do with it? What will we create? How will it shape us? My latest art project asks us to pause, reflect, and re-assemble. "This is work that must be seen in these times . . ." - John Carter Cash LEARN MORE about how you can be a part of this time capsule project HERE www.bit.ly/2020Disrupted #Brezinka #Disrupted #MixedMedia

2020 has caused more disruption and breaking open than we could have imagined. What will we do with it? What will we create? How will it shape us? My latest art project asks us to pause, reflect, and re-assemble. "This is work that must be seen in these times . . ." - John Carter Cash LEARN MORE and support this work HERE www.bit.ly/2020Disrupted Please SHARE this post, leave a COMMENT here and hit LIKE to help spread the word. I'm grateful for your support. #Brezinka #Disrupted #MixedMedia

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Brezinka for Beginners Art Workshop

JOIN US September 15 & 16 for my upcoming Brezinka for Beginners Art Workshop. Here’s a taste of a previous workshop warm-up exercise. Sign up today, before this one sells out! Details here http://www.waynebrezinka.com/shop/workshop-registration-5m4xg #Brezinka #MixedMedia