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Judith K. Brodsky: Inside and Outside
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 - Friday, December 22, 2023
Lilien Gallery
“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
The works that appeared in this exhibition were loans to the Zimmerli and therefore do not appear on this website.
“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
The works that appeared in this exhibition were loans to the Zimmerli and therefore do not appear on this website.
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 - Friday, December 22, 2023
Sunday, January 29, 2012 - Sunday, July 15, 2012
Saturday, January 29, 2011 - Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, February 14, 2015 - Friday, July 31, 2015
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - Sunday, January 11, 2015
Saturday, April 20, 2013 - Sunday, October 13, 2013
Saturday, September 20, 2008 - Sunday, January 18, 2009
Saturday, February 13, 2016 - Sunday, July 31, 2016
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Saturday, March 23, 2013 - Sunday, September 29, 2013
Saturday, March 4, 2017 - Sunday, October 1, 2017
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - Sunday, July 30, 2023