LAKE GEORGE — The Courthouse Gallery will present a Live Online Talk with artist Scott Brodie at 4 p.m. on March 6.
Brodie will be featured in an exhibition of his most recent work, observations of daily life, ranging from still life to landscape, and all created within the last year.
Through the immediacy of his loose brush work, the deftly painted works capture the intimacy of meditative moments of observation of light and color. Depending on his subject, Brodie alternates his palette from bold saturated colors to warm soft light, accentuated with flecks of a warm ground color peeking through. Any object, such as a glass, a can, a chair, a plant, or a lawnmower, can be transformed into a celebration of painting.
“The series titles, ‘Plague Spring,’ ‘Beached in the Backyard,’ and ‘The Waiting’ do refer to the pandemic, or more precisely to the state of existing during the pandemic, but they are open-ended and don’t dictate the subject matter… In terms of subject, there is only a tangential connection. I generally don’t favor ‘topical’ work, it tends to be newsy, literal, and has a short shelf life. But the staying-at-home and the waiting-for-it-to-pass have had an effect. For one, it got me out of the house to do some plein air work, but alas, only as far as my back yard,” Brody says.
The exhibition takes place March 6-April 9. For more information, go online to: lakegeorgearts.org.
