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THE PAINTING CENTER - Gandy Brodie

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2014 · Entertainment

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Gandy Brodie
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February 25th - March 22nd, 2014
Opening:  February 27th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM


The Painting Center is pleased to host an exhibition of paintings by the 
second-generation New York School painter Gandy Brodie (1925-1975). 
Brodie's work combines stark almost primitive imagery with dense heavily 
worked surfaces. The exhibition will feature important paintings from a 
body of work spanning over two decades. Brodie was essentially self-
taught. After studying dance with Martha Graham, he began painting in the 
mid forties inspired by Van Gogh's Starry Night along with works by 
Picasso and Paul Klee that he saw at the Museum of Modern Art. 

While he had no formal training Brodie was encouraged by Hans Hofmann 
who bought an early painting of a jazz trumpeter from him and invited him 
to attend his weekly criticisms of student work. Brodie was inspired by jazz 
and had a friendship with Billie Holiday. 

The Hirshhorn Museum owns a large painting by Brodie of jazz trumpeter 
Miles Davis. In 1951 Meyer Schapiro selected him for a two-person New 
Talent show at the Kootz Gallery along with Cy Twombly who had been 
selected by Clement Greenberg. Schapiro praised Brodie as "one of the 
best painters of his generation." 

Brodie was included in the 1957 Artists of the New York School: Second 
Generation show at the Jewish Museum as well as being included in 
Thomas Hess's 1956 article U.S. Painting: Some Recent Directions. His work 
has been shown at the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, the 
Guggenheim Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He 
was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968. In 2006 Brodie's 
Meditation on a Kosher Tag, 1963, was included in the Soutine and Modern 
Art exhibition at the Cheim and Read Gallery along with works by Pollock, 
Dubuffet, de Kooning, Resnick and others. 

The exhibition has been selected by curator Craig Manister to exhibit the 
range of Brodie's work in subject matter, color, scale and surface. All works 
are on loan from the estate of Gandy Brodie, courtesy of Steven Harvey 
Fine Art Projects and other private collections

Music by:
Chill Carrier - A New Day

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