Brusca, who was born in New York in 1939, attended the University of New Hampshire and the New York School of Visual Arts. In 1969, he held his debut one-man show at Galeria Bonino in New York. His work has since been exhibited around the United States and South America. When Mr. Brusca had his first one-man show in 1969 at the Bonino Galleria on West 57th Street, he received critical acclaim for paintings that drew inspiration from Leger and the mechanical tradition but were not bound by them. One critic praised him as "just about as sharp as they come" in the illusionistic representation of sleek three-dimensional forms through a blend of surrealism, pop, and hard-edged neo-realism at a display in that gallery in 1973.