John Brosio painted also a thought-provoking series on tornadoes, the most American among the natural calamities, and the precariousness of human existence—especially when it is self-interested and ecologically myopic and unaware
As critic Peter Frank writes, 'no current painter more expresses, even relies on, such peculiarly American “anxious realism” than does John Brosio [...] The American Dream, Brosio avers [...], it is an illusion of security, a child’s dream from which we can only awaken in dread'