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Manhattan Arts Gallery
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#9 in Grey
grey marble, 24" x 14"x 9" |
Sea Form - Carrara
carrara marble, 26 1/2" x 14" x 9" |
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Shasta
white portugese marble
17" x 2" x 6" |
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encaustic painting, 5" x 7" |
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encaustic painting, 10" x 10" |
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encaustic painting, 5" x 7" |
Artist Profile
Kiki Brodkin is a sculptor, printmaker, digital artist and encaustic
painter. She has had one-person exhibitions at the Pleiades Gallery
in Chelsea, New York, NY, and the Upper Eastside of Manhattan.
Her major shows have also included those at Wm. Paterson University,
and ohers in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Sag Harbor, Munich
and Gelnhausen in Germany. Her work was featured in the Gwangju-Biennal
International Art Center, Gwan-gju, South Korea.
She was recently honored by the University
of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey for a commissioned sculpture,
now permanently on view at the universities Division of Alumni
Affairs. She is a graduate of the Cooper Union, earned a Masters Degree at Wm. Paterson University and studied at the marble workshops in Peitrasanta, Italy.
In
recent works, Kiki Brodkin explores the translucent, tactile and
rich hues of encaustic materials. In these mainly abstract works,
we see luminous colors layered with scratched and scored surfaces,
radiant stains and washes and occasional impastos, all filtered
through the unique qualities of encaustics. She has said, "How
wonderful it is to always reach into the unknown to call up the
poetic power of magical, visual imagery."
Praise for Kiki Brodkin
"The triply gifted sculptor, painter, and printmaker Kiki
Brodkin, reveals something central to her work, the almost hedonistic
tactile pleasure that she takes in manipulating materials, employing
them as vehicles for exploration, rather than as a means to execute
preconceived ideas. In a time when so many others put the main
emphasis on conceptual strategies to the detriment of immediacy,
the sensuality of form and the sensuousness of surface that Kiki
achieves through her direct approach are qualities to be savored
and treasured. One is drawn into her work in much the same way
that one is attracted to anything truly beautiful, without the
necessity to intellectualize or rationalize the pleasure on finds
there."
Ed McCormack, New York critic, art historian, author, and editor-and-chief of Gallery & Studio magazine
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