STEPHANIE BRODY-LEDERMAN Cloud 9
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STEPHANIE BRODY-LEDERMAN Cloud 9
ARTIST TALK Saturday, June 11, 4pm, reception to follow
Metaphor Projects is pleased to present Stephanie Brody-Lederman Cloud 9, a survey of recent paintings, opening May 21, 5-8pm, through June 26, 2022, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Since her earliest exhibitions in the mid 1970s, her work has beguiled viewers with its mix of poetry, whimsy, and painterly visual wit. Born in New York City in 1939, Ms. Brody-Lederman, in her six decades of prolific practice has created a large body of paintings, constructions, book works, calendars, and works on paper that have been widely exhibited and can be found in public and private collections across the US and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art in NY and Shakespeare and Co. in Paris.
Stephanie Brody-Lederman is a born collagist, a seeker, collector, combiner, and documentarian of the sensations and language of life as it is well & fully lived. Her mixed media paintings are rich with tactile incident and a sensuous physicality that reflects her zest for living and are full to spilling with boundless energy & a keen ear for poetry. She makes the utmost of the quotidian, finding poetics embedded in the ordinary flow of life, and distilling from everyday experiences an essential truth.
Over her long and fruitful career Stephanie Brody-Lederman has maintained a fresh approach to each moment, and new canvas, by looking, listening, and feeling her way, open hearted, and open to the moment, to the humor, pathos and beauty of recognizable phrases and symbols and what the physicality of the paint itself has to say. Ms. Brody-Lederman is a painter’s painter, deploying the many tools at her command with an off hand elegance and thoroughly charming panache. But she is also a poet, layering carefully chosen language into the dense surfaces of her paintings to communicate with precision and poignancy taut phrases which cut through the haze to remind us that life is complex, challenging, absurd and often wonderful.
Brody-Lederman’s paintings are as romantic as old movies or the latest pop songs, they are both nostalgic and hopeful, they hold shadows and sunlight, today, tomorrow, and yesterday, they ooze, they slip, slide, they shout, they whisper, they sing, they dream. Most of all they are beautiful as life can be at its best, symbol filled rebuses and roadmaps to the good life. In this time of deep trouble in the world, plague, toxic politics, and war, come find a joyous, richly humanist respite on Cloud 9.
The opening reception is May 21, 5-8pm (masks required, doors wide open for maximum ventilation, refreshments outside).
Metaphor Projects is located at 382 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY in Downtown Brooklyn/Boerum Hill near BAM and Barclay Center. All trains nearby and street parking available.
Gallery hours: Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm.