Artists' Fellowship - 2000
Painting
Artist Statement:
"My work is a choreography of the unique physical forms in nature.... I visualize a dynamic universe—an entity that imprints its language on all its surfaces. I often carve into the layered paint thinking about beginnings or about the way nature excavates the earth’s crust or core to create form. My paintings, therefore, reflect the passage of time. Most recently, I have been painting my perceptions of the Hudson River where I walk everyday.... I am aware of the river’s ever-changing light, rhythm and color affected by weather, tides and seasons. It is a voice that translates into form and color on my canvases." Brodsky’s large, brightly-hued canvases engage viewers on a visceral level, directing them to the artist’s intuitive world. Tumultuous clouds of color and texture and areas of scraped paint are instruments Brodsky employs to reach "non-linear realities."
More about the Artist:
Beverly Brodsky, born in Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of Brooklyn College, where she studied with Ad Reinhardt and Burgoyne Diller. She has received numerouse awards for her painting and also for her book illustrations. These include the Caldecott Honor Medal from THE GOLEM, a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Grant, and the New York Foundation for the Arts Artists' Fellowship for painting. She has also received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for a commissioned work. She has traveled, lectured and exhibited internationally. Her lectures include The Brooklyn Museum, Harvard University, and University of California at Berkeley, etc.
In New York her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Jewish Museum, as well as in Soho and Tribeca Galleries including M-13, The Painting Center and Studio 18 Gallery. At the Westbeth Gallery, where she had a solo retrospective Found Visions, she has consistently exhibited. Found Visions included 45 major works of art including oils on canvas and works on paper.
Her most recent book of paintings (oils, watercolors, and monotypes) called Buffalo will be published in spring 2003 by Marshall Cavendish. The book includes her narrative and Native American Song-Poems. She teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Brodsky is represented by Etra Fine Art in Miami, Florida, where she will have a
major one-person exhibition in October 2005 featuring thirty works, mainly oils
on canvas. Brodsky will also have a three-person exhibition at the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut, from March 17-April 28, 2005.
She also participated in the NYFA exhibition Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence at Sotheby's, New York, in summer 2001.
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