“A childhood in which I had been emotionally battered had left me with wounds I refused to acknowledge. But the darkness that threatened to envelope Jon in his bondage photos was a darkness I knew quite well; and it bound me to him.”
“Ropes” essay, Eclectica Magazine by Lee Brozgol
“Brozgol’s work has deep roots in American culture—gritty, political art that offers a scathing, profound, and heartbreaking look at our country.”
- Author Periel Aschenbrand in Tablet Magazine
“Move over, Betsy Ross.” - Washington Post
“Metropolitan Masters, great artwork is as close as the nearest Subway station.” - NY Daily News
“Being an artist was an aspect of my identity that was hardwired. Like the grass under the sidewalk, it had to grow and would push away the sidewalk. I was never trying to be an artist, or a beatnik, or fringe. It just came naturally. They couldn’t beat it out of me.”
- Brozgol interviewed for Pentales oral history project
Select Press
“Depicting vignettes of community history…the resulting presentation recorgnizes the many individuals who gave the neighborhood [Greenwich Village] its reputation as a cauldron of artistic and political actviity.” Official MTA writings on Lee Brozgol’s Greenwich Village Murals
”Architecture, fantasy, and city life are on display at After Lives, a group show curated by Foreign & Domestic Gallery,” Daniel Roche for The Architect’s Newspaper
”Brozgol’s tongue-in-cheek jab at cities’ attempts to turn sites of tragedy into tourist attractions,” HOME Gallery writing on Brozgol’s proposd Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial
Author Jennifer Sky interviews Brozgol’s eldest kid Royal Young for The Rumpus
Artist and Educator Adam Zucker writes on Brozgol’s Greenwich Village Murals for Artfully Learning
“I think everyone is at least a little crazy. Perhaps artists could wear buttons stating: “I’m an artist. I’m a little crazy. I channel that into my art. If you’re human, you’re a little crazy, too.” Brozgol speaks with artist Lizz Brady for Across The Pond UK
“We need to think about what to do when the government takes the position that there is no poetry.” Brozgol comments on the War Against Iraq at Detroit’s Museum of New Art (MONA)