Jo-Ann Brody

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My work revolves around the female – the tree of life, earth mother and mother earth/clay/earth/dirt/dust. I work with clay and cement, both from and of the earth. I see women as strong, rooted, connected to the earth, the tree of life, earth mother and mother earth. (Wo)Man was made of clay.

Bodies are easily recognizable—just the merest sketch evokes the vision. A few markers create the illusion of reality. My pieces are an effort to both minimalize and abstract all cues and still evoke a recognizable female figure. I work in series with the richness of individual and small variations creating rhythms and affinities. Then I group my series playing with line, rhythm, and negative space whether I am working with women standing tall and strong or torsos that suggest stone.

Jo-Ann Brody

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 

2010 Guardians/Watchers/Warders: new work in cement, Maxwell Fine Arts, Peekskill NY

2009 Fugue Forms, Ceres Gallery New York, NY

2007  Sticks and Stones, CeresGallery, New York, NY.       

Clusters, an installation, The Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY.

2005  Boxes& Foxes: Surface & Stance, Maxwell Fine Arts, Peekskill, NY.

2004 Multiples,Ceres Gallery, New York, NY.

2003  Woman Forms, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY.

2002  Speaking Figuratively, (with Don Keene) Maxwell Fine Arts, Peekskill, NY.
Beauties, Beasts & Other Imaginary Beings, (with Allen Hart & Maja Kihlstedt) Westchester Community College Art Gallery, Valhalla NY.
Sculpture Installation, Di Santi Plaza, Curator Leslie Scheiblberg, Hartsdale, NY.

2000  Gallery Zogei, (with Lisa Bresnak) Kyoto, Japan.

1999  Fugues in Cement, OpenStudios, Westchester Art Council, White Plains, NY.
Figures in Cement & Clay, Invitational Series, Belle Levine Arts Center, Mahopac, NY.

Selected Group Shows
2008  Visible and Invisible Spaces,curated by Jennifer Heath, a traveling exhibition
Peekskill Project, Peekskill, NY

2007  Outdoor Sculpture Shows, Collaborative Concepts and the Studio, Garrison NY & Armonk NY      
10 x 10 x 10,10artists, 10 storefronts, 10 communities, curated by Judy Sigunick, Ellenville, NY

2006  Collaborative Concepts at Saunder’s Farm, 35 artists and a 100acre farm, Garrison,NY.
Conversations, Maxwell Fine Arts Sculpture Garden, Peekskill, NY.
Windows to the Soul, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers Public Library, Yonkers, NY.

2005  Winter Solstice, TheStudio, White Plains and Armonk, NY.
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art: A benefit auction of significant works, Robert Miller Gallery, NY, NY.
Hold the Line, Peekskill Project, site-specific sculptural installation, Peekskill, NY.

2004  Art at War, The Artist’s Voice. Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago IL.
The Third Biennial Women Book Artists Exhibition, Theresa Prator Curator, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC.

2003  Art in Nishijin, Kyoto, Japan.
Women of the Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes–Words on  Fire, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA.
Small Works, A.I.R. Gallery, NY, NY