Musings : Works in Clay
June 6 – July 31, 2015
The Filed Library, 4 Nelson Ave, Peekskill NY 10566
914-737-1212 http://www.peekskill.org
Hours: Mon, Tue, Thu 9-9, Wed 11-9, Fri 9-5, Sat 10-2
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- “Tension Apprehension, Panic,” 2014 Stoneware, oxides, acrylic 14 x 4 x 2”
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- “Long and Lean,” 2015 Stoneware, Oxides 20 x 6 x 3”
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- “Long torso,” 2015 Stoneware with oxides 22 x 7 x 3”
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- “My Eyes Mislead,” 2015 Stoneware, glaze, oxides 24 x 10 x 3”
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- “Offspring,” 2015 Stoneware, glaze, oxides 13½ x 8½ x 2”
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- “Figure with Head,” 2015 Stoneware with oxides 18½ x 6½ x 2½”
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- “Muse with Red Hat,” 2015 Stoneware, glaze, oxides 18 x 8 ½ x 3”
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- Torso with Head, 2013 Stoneware with oxides 11 x 5 x 2”
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- “Wishes, Wisdom, Whimsey,” 2015 Stoneware, glaze, oxides 14 ¼ x 7 x 2”
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- “Frog Woman, Legs Open,” 2015 Stoneware, Oxides 15 x 9 x 2”
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- “Frog Woman, Legs to Side,” 2015 Stoneware, Oxides 17 x 9 ½ x 3”
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- “Large Frog Woman,” 2015 Stoneware, oxides 21½ x 11 x 3½”
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- “Frog Woman (Legs Crossed,)” 2015 Stoneware, oxides 13 x 8½ x 2½”
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- “Frog Woman, Bird Arms,” 2015 Stoneware, Oxides 13 x 8¼ x 2½”
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- “Frog Woman, Bird Woman,” 2015 Stoneware, glaze, oxides, cable ties 12½ x 12½ x 1½”
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- “Truncated,” 2015 Stoneware, oxides, glaze 27 x 8 x 3”
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- “I’m Sorry, he said” 2015 Stoneware with oxides, cable ties 14 ½ x 10 ½ x 2”
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- Old, Lumpy,” 2015 Stoneware with oxides 15 x 7 ½ x 3”
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- “No More,” 2013 Stoneware with oxides 18 x 7 x 2½”
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- “He Loves Me,” 2014 Stoneware, Oxides 17 x 7 x 2”
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- “Young, I Thought.” 2015 Stoneware with oxides 18 x 11½ x 3”
The work in the order it is in in the gallery.
Brody creates archetypal female forms that reflect particularly figurative experiences. In “Musings,” the works take a personal turn as the forms become specific.
“The figures explore some of the changes in the past 10 years as I became a grandmother again and as my body and body image change.” Book pages, torsos, incised words on figures in stoneware with oxides are the musings on the state of being a woman of a certain age. Internal references to nature have changed as well from tree forest images as the figures now reflect classical fertility goddesses, incorporating bird features and frog imagery.
jo-ann brody 