David Brody lectures At Form/Space Atelier

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Paul Pauper 206-349-2509

UW Professor David Brody lectures on his work Friday April 18, 6PM at Form/Space Atelier, 2407 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121-1311 . Wine and bread will be served, admission is free.

David Brody was born in New York City. He did undergraduate work at Columbia University and Bennington College and received an MFA in painting from Yale University. In addition to solo exhibitions at Gallery NAGA in Boston, Esther Claypool Gallery in Seattle, Gescheidle in Chicago, and Galeria Gilde in Portugal his work has been featured in over 70 group shows including those at the Chicago Center for the Print, the Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, The Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Florida, Tallahassee, and at The Painting Center, Alternative Museum, and Bridgewater Gallery in New York City. His work has also been shown at the Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporàneo (ARCO Art Fair) in Madrid, the RipArte Art Fair in Rome, the Trevi Flash Art Museum, in Trevi , Italy, the FAC Art Fair in Lisbon and at Art Chicago in the US.

Brody has received numerous awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Fulbright Grant, a Basil H. Alkazzi Award, an Elizabeth Foundation Grant, two Massachusetts Artist Fellowships, and was a Fellow at the Shave International Artists’ Workshop in Somerset, England.

His work is the subject of two monographs, "David Brody, Selected Painting 1985-1994" and "David Brody, Selected Painting 2000-2001" which features an essay by Elisabeth Sussman, curator at the Whitney Museum in New York. He has been written about in other publications including The Boston Globe, the New Art Examiner, the Spanish journal, Lapiz, and in the Lisbon daily O Publico.

An exhibit at the Esther Claypool Gallery in Seattle was described by the Seattle Weekly as, "daring, humorous, and superbly executed . . . a witty meditation on our culture’s discomfort with the human body . . ."; in Art New England they wrote, "Brody humorously questions our notions of reality and the order of nature. Brody knows how to make one laugh but walk away questioning whether it is actually funny - or much worse than that."; in Artforum they wrote: "Brody's . . .paintings . . . provide a stunning visual punch . . . [and] are rendered with a bravura that is both compelling and hypnotic."; and most recently, Sue Taylor, a reviewer for Art in America, wrote, "A highly intelligent artist . . . Brody is absolutely serious about technique. An emphasis on fine drawing, delicate surfaces and careful considerations of color and light informs all his pictures."

David Brody has been a visiting critic at Harvard University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Chicago, and Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.