Brian Gormley (born New York City) is an internationally exhibited American painter living and working in both Ireland and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
His hybrid works are greatly influenced by the abstract expressionist and graffiti art movements.
In the mid-1980s, Gormley began showing expressionistic oils with figural motifs, distinguished by wild color and bravura brushwork.
"[2] Of Irish ancestry Gormley today often exhibits in ancestral homeland where he maintains a residence.
Such showings have included at The Cooper House Gallery (November 21 – December 3, 2013)[3] and works from his collaborative book with poet Michael Carter, "On Bolus Head", at the Trinity College Library (March 25 until April 30, 2013) both in Dublin.