Judith K. Brodsky: Inside and Outside

“Although these are drawings, my drawing methods derive from my printmaking. For me, the layering in printmaking—layers of colors from separate plates, layers of mark-making—is a physical metaphor for the layering of meaning. I used photographs I took of my assistant, Ilana Cloud, who had closets full of flea market–purchased clothing and accessories, which she combined in fascinating ways, as well as photographs of my open mouth at different stages of teeth-straightening, to show how we decorate the body’s exterior to hide the body’s interior functions, thus denying evidence of mortality. With my open mouth that resembles a scream, they are also about how the pandemic reminded us of mortality’s inevitability and blocked us from denying the body's abject nature.”  – Judith K. Brodsky

Organized by Maura Reilly, Director