Beverly Brodsky “Abstract Visions”

First Street Gallery

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First Street Gallery presents ABSTRACT VISIONS featuring Beverly Brodsky’s large-scale oils on canvas. Her paintings reflect evocations of natural elements such as light on water, fire, and the earth’s dynamic transformations. Brodsky celebrates her primordial world with imagination and immediacy. “My direct process,“ she states, is “a catalyst for releasing ephemeral forms and non-linear realities, such as the dream or spirit world.” The artist hopes the viewer will discover her world “with a slow gaze.” This is Brodsky’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Brodsky’s passion is color, which is evident in Ascending and Reflections.”Color must seek a balance in order for the painting to be completely resolved and painted through,” she states. “Just below my window I observe the Hudson River’s light, its tidal rhythms, and the ever-changing surface sculpted by time. This metamorphosis filters into my paintings when I create a ‘moment’ on canvas.” In It Comes About, her calligraphic brush strokes combine the materiality and visceral qualities of paint. Within her sumptuous surfaces she layers and scumbles the paint to create depth and emotion. Brodsky further states: “In my travels through landscapes around the globe, I experience natural phenomena. Just after Storm Sandy, which coincided with the death of my mother, I completed Elegy. I am fascinated with our cycle of evolution in a way that is in keeping with my own intuitive process of artistic creation. By layering paint and capturing organic forms, originating from my memory and imagination, I summon distant worlds. During my excursions through prehistoric formations, I have seen nature’s carvings in The Grand Canyon as well as volcanic disturbances in Japan and Greece. Steam rising from the earth and lava flows challenge my imagination, as expressed in Red Earth and Inner Fire.” In Transfigured Forms, Brodsky choreographs color and form through the power of her brush strokes.

On a field trip to New Jersey’s Palisades, in her early college days, Brodsky discovered prehistoric fossilization in rock formations. “Within the layers of time, a Trilobite became a ‘found form,’ she says. Since that revelation, Beverly creates “in the spirit of discovery.” The artist further notes: “Earth’s dynamic upheavals are nature’s evolution of form. Throughout my journey as a painter I have come to experience the act of creation as an intricate primal force which propels my vision.The canvas is a crucible for transformation.”

[Image: Beverly Brodsky “Transfigured Forms” oil on canvas, 60” x 70”]

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from September 03, 2013 to September 28, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-09-12 from 17:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Beverly Brodsky

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