Keep Out, oil, wax on linen, diptych 51” x 78” 2017
Subtle paintings, muted colors & amorphous shapes that allude to natural objects mirror Mona Brody’s personal memories creating a meditative space
Extracting from her personal experiences, writings, and biography, she shapes the nature of many of her forms and textures, encouraging viewers to think about their own associations and memories.
The Whispered Silence, oil, wax, graphite on linen 48” x 72” 2016
Dig Down, oil, wax, on linen 42” x 60”, 2017
Push Away, oil, wax on linen, 42” x 60” 2017
Grow Wise, oil, wax on linen, 28” x 22” 2017
Night Sounds, oil, wax, on linen 30” x 24” 2017
Layered Soil and Bone, oil, wax, on linen, 28” x 22” 2017
Larger Than Itself, oil, wax, on linen 28” x 22” 2017
Temporary Space, oil, wax, on linen 28” x 22” 2017
While Fragile, oil, wax, on linen 28” x 22” 2017
Whisper Along the Branch of a Tree, oil, wax, on linen 30” x 24”, 2016
Did She Get to Dance? oil, wax, on canvas, 51” x 39” 2016
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Mona Brody has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally. Her solo exhibitions include The Painting Center, New York, NY, The President’s Gallery, Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Utica College, Utica, NY, Kent State University, North Canton, Ohio, the Montclair Art Museum Montclair, NJ, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ. Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, Vt, and the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ.
Selected group exhibitions include Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, the Kimmel Center Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Medialia’s Rack and Hamper Gallery, NY, the Morris Museum of Art, Morristown, NJ, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, New Brunswick, NJ, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA, Nanjing College of Art, Nanjing, China, and Boleslawiec Art Museum, International Ceramic and Sculpture Symposium, Boleslawiec, Poland. She is represented by Carter Burden Gallery, NY.
Public collections that own her work are The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ. Boleslawiec Art Museum, Boleslawiec, Poland, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA and the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ.
Brody has been awarded Fellowships and Honors from Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ, New Jersey Artist/Teacher Fellowship, Geraldine Dodge Foundation. Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, The 33rd International Sculpture Symposium, Boleslawiec, Poland, FIPSE Creative Cluster Grant, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, The Governor’s Award in Arts Education, New Jersey State Department of Education, the Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, Massachusetts, and Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Artist & Master Printer Norwalk, CT. The 2015 Distinguished Alumna Award in Recognition of accomplishments in the Visual Arts, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA.
Brody is a Professor of Art at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Her extensive educational experience includes “Educating Through the Arts” Visual AIDS, New York, Educational Coordinator, responsible for creating partnerships and art projects. She developed the Collaboration between the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Harlem, NY and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She received an MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Art, MS in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA in Printmaking, Moore College of Art & Design.
website: https://www.monabrody.com
