For the past several decades, Brody has worked with series of figures echoing her fascination with the society and place of women. Her practice revolves around the female form concentrating on gesture and stance often in installation. Over the years her figures have evolved from small clay women to life sized standing cement figures and papier mache torsos and figures. They are women; they provide a means to explore her life through stance and gesture, through stories and relationships.

Line rather than mass is the predominant consideration in this work. Inspiration is informed by the work of Modigliani and Matisse.

Brody’s work is in clay and in cement or the combination of these earth materials. Recent work is in papièr maché with the addition of color and texture often literally from text.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019	(Off) Balance, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2016	Women Forms, Gallery 66 Sculpture garden, Cold Spring NY
2013	Conversations, Studio A Gallery, Tarrytown NY
2010	Guardians/Watches/Warders, Maxwell Fine Arts Sculpture Garden, Peekskill, NY
2007	Clusters, an installation, The Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY.
2000	Gallery Zogei, (with Lisa Breznak) Kyoto, Japan.            Dialogs in the Garden; Figures in Cement, Chappaqua Library Gallery, Curator Larry D’Amico, Chappaqua, NY.

Selected Group and Juried Exhibitions

2021	Pachamama/Mother Earth” Ceres Artsy Online Exclusive Exhibition Outside My Oeuvre, Ceres Gallery, NYC Highland Falls ArtWalk, Highland Falls, NY Looking Forward, PAA Virtual Exhibition
2020	Resolutions, Ceres Online Exclusive Exhibition Life as it Is Now, Ceres Gallery, NYC Collaborative Concepts at Tilly Foster Farm, Brewster NY Artists Respond to the Pandemic, Peekskill Arts Alliance Virtual exhibition (S)Mother, Bethany Art Center, Invitational curated by Anna Adler, Bethany Art Center, Ossining NY
2018	Balance, curated by Bibiana Huang Mattheis, Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY Transplanted, Paramount Hudson Valley, Hudson Valley Heath Care, Peekskill, NY
2017-18	Sculpture Walk, RoCA, Nyack NY
2017-2016	Highland Falls Art Walk, Highland Falls, NY WORD, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill NY
2014	Women: the Rock the Root the Foundation, Bean Runner Café curated by Lisa Breznak, Peekskill NY  My Girl, It’s All about Things, Portchester NY Jose Marc Gallery at Affordable Art Fair, NY
2013	ReVisoning White Plains, Nazanin H. Monroe, curator Art of the Pumpkin, The Blaze, Historic Hudson Valley, Croton Harmon, NY,  2013
2012	eARTh, Leigh Mikelson curator Sculpture Off and On the Wall, ArtsExchange, White Plains, NY
2007-2011	The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces, Curated by Jennifer Heath, traveling exhibition
2008	Peekskill Project IV, site-specific sculptural installation, Peekskill, NY. The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces, curated by Jennifer Heath, a traveling exhibition 10 x 10 x 10, curated by Judy Sigunick, Ellensville NY
2005	Peekskill Project IV, , site-specific sculptural installation Hold the Line, Peekskill Project, Peekskill, NY A benefit auction of significant works, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art: Robert Miller Gallery, NY, NY
2004	The Third Biennial Women Book Artists Exhibition, Theresa Prator Curator, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC
2002	Beauties, Beasts & Other Imaginary Beings, Westchester Community College Art Gallery, Valhalla NY

Articles
“Sculptures Big and Small, and All in the Open, ‘The Farm Project 2013,’” at Saunders Farm in Garrison, Susan Hodera, New York Times on line 9/13/13.
“Cows and Horses Mingle at The Farm,” Amy Lipton , Philipsttown.info, October 19, 2012
“A Global Response to War Rendered in Words and Images,” Victor Alejandro Sorell, NY Arts Magazine. Nov/Dc. 2004, Vol. 9, No.11/12.
Art Reviews/D. Dominick Lombardi: “Abstract paintings that create a roller coaster ride,” New York Times Westchester, Dec, 15, 2002.
3 articles in Japanese with photos. Morning Asahi, Mainichi, & Daily Yomieri, Oct. 15, 2000.

Panels 

2019	Artist Talk: Roundtable with Chris Jones, Jo-Ann Brody, and Livia Straus, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill NY
2017	How to Promote Your Art: WORD Artist Panel II, HV Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill NY
2007	The Feminist Cooperatives in NY, Brooklyn Museum, Sackler Wing, Brooklyn, NY
2001	The Japan Experience, Katonah Museum Art Assn, Katonah Museum, NY.

Videos

2020	PAA virtual Studio visit part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezJetEN8yUA;  part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_hw35VftpI

     

Collections
Pfizer Learning Center, Rye Brook, NY.
Ginsberg Development Corporation, LLC., Hawthorne, NY.
Private Collections in England, France, Israel, Japan, FL, NY, ME, OH,
VA, NJ, MA, CA.

Memberships/Affiliations
Collaborative Concepts, President, Garrison NY
Peekskill Arts Alliance, Secretary, Peekskill, NY
Ceres Gallery, NY, NY
Hudson Valley MOCA Artist Member
Hammond Museum Artist Member