Jay Brady "Reading Faces"
Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
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I have been drawing all my life. Some of my influences are: playing in the woods; playing on a construction site; imitating people, animals and objects; watching water pool and flow; watching and listening to branches and leaves in the wind; watching the light change; pretending in the midst of the real world; singing; dancing; Halloween; the work of Degas, Goya, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Lautrec, van Gogh, Cezanne, Manet, Bach, Dvořák, Chopin, Schubert, Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Howlin' Wolf, Charlie Parker, Nino Rota, Benny Goodman, Sidney Bechet, Fred Astaire and Erik Satie; the work found in caves such as those at Altamira and Lascaux; Chinese brush painting; and calligraphers such as Zhang Xu.
I draw spontaneously, absorbing the subject matter, impersonating it inwardly, feeling its inflection and structure—as with music—and then enacting it using marks. As soon as I begin, I have two more tools: accident and improvisation. Drawing is such an absorbing activity—responsive, flexible, investigatory, full of ideas. The intense combination of observation and improvisation creates something like a spell. It's a marvelous condition.
Jay Brady has worked in various forms of printing, print preparation, production and publishing for years. She has exhibited her work at many venues, including the Fiona & Ryan Art Space and Starting Artists in Brooklyn, and the White Street Windows in Manhattan. She earned a BFA from Bennington College.
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from April 19, 2011 to June 25, 2011