Mona Brody
Encyclopedia
Mona Brody is a contemporary U.S.
artist from West Orange, New Jersey
. Solo Exhibitions include: 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), Treasure Room Gallery, Interchurch Center (New York, NY), New Jersey Center for Visual Arts (Summit, NJ).
Public Collections include: The Museum of Modern Art Library (NY), The Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, NJ). The New Jersey State Museum
(Trenton, New Jersey
). The Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, NJ). The Morris Museum (Morristown. NJ), The Noyes Museum (Oceanville, NJ), Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers State University (New Brunswick, NJ), Boleslawiec Art Museum, (Boleslawiec, Poland), Southwest Minnesota State University Art Museum (Marshall, Minnesota).
Fellowships & Honors include: Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper (Rutgers State University), New Jersey Artist/Teacher Dodge Foundation, Dodge Foundation Residency for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Sweet Briar, Va.), Visiting Artist at the 33rd International Sculpture Symposium In Boleslawiec, Poland, Contemporary Art Center, Artist Residency Award (North Adams, Massachusetts).
Academic: She was a visiting Assistant Adjunct Professor 2007 at Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY Her other mentoring ocontribution have included Art Reach, City Without Walls, Newark NJ, Mapping No Boundaries: An HIV/AIDS Project, “Educating Through the Arts” Visual AIDS, New York, Educational Coordinator, responsible for creating partnerships and art projects: The Boys & Girls Club of Hudson County, Jersey City Museum, Visual AIDS Archive Artists, Newark Art Museum Film Series & Lecture, Brooklyn Museum Collaboration. She spent many years as a public school art teacher, educating young minds and helping good artists become amazing, at Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan
in New Jersey
.
Wood panels and paper support, charcoal, pencil, paint, transferred images, collage and wax. The layered surfaces veil and obscure what is beneath the surface, hidden experiences that elicit the viewer to explore.
" everything of which I know, but of which I am not at the moment thinking; everything of which I was once conscious but have now forgotten..." Jung
"http://www.monabrody.com
2003 Studio Montclair: Meet the Artist Series "Framed Evidence", Montclair Library Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2002 Pierro Gallery of South Orange "New Evidence" South Orange, NJ
2000 The Wood Art Gallery "Evidence Series" Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
1998 Gallery at Newark Academy "Beyond the Wall" Livingston, NJ
1997 Aljira, A Center of Contemporary Art "Mona Brody: Recent Works" Newark, NJ
1996 Pine Gallery "An Installation" Fairlawn, NJ
1995 Ben Shahn Galleries “Brody: Sculpture, Prints & Paintings" William Paterson University
, Wayne, NJ
1993 The Montclair Art Museum "Works in Progress" Montclair, NJ
1993 DDC Fine Arts Gallery "From the Journey Series" Montclair, NJ
1992 Kent Place Gallery "Paintings and Works on Paper" Summit, NJ
1991 Treasure Room Gallery "New Works with the Earth" New York, NY
1987 Pleiades Gallery "A Story" New York, NY
1986 Center Gallery "Words and Visual Images" OCCC, Demarest, NJ
2004/2002 Geraldine Dodge Foundation Grant, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
2001/2000 Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Artist & Master Printer Norwalk, CT
1998 Gradiva Award National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis New York, NY
1997 The 33rd International Ceramic and Sculpture Symposium Boleslawiec, Poland
1996 NJ Printmaking Fellowship Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper
New Brunswick, NJ Contemporary Artist Center North Adams, MA
, Marshall, MN
Marilyn Kushner-Curator, Prints and Drawings Brooklyn Museum
, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY
Center for Innovative Print & Paper, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ
Jersey City Art Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, CT
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
Boleslawiec Cultural Center & Museum, Boleslawiec, Poland
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
The Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Newark Public Library
, Newark, NJ
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Trenton, NJ
The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Nancy Einreinhofer-Director, Ben Shahn Galleries, West Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Webster University
, AGC Aesthetics St. Louis, MO
Massachusetts College of Art
, MS Art Education, Boston, MA
Moore College of Art & Design, BFA Printmaking, Philadelphia, PA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
artist from West Orange, New Jersey
West Orange, New Jersey
West Orange is a township in central Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 46,207...
. Solo Exhibitions include: 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), Treasure Room Gallery, Interchurch Center (New York, NY), New Jersey Center for Visual Arts (Summit, NJ).
Public Collections include: The Museum of Modern Art Library (NY), The Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, NJ). The New Jersey State Museum
New Jersey State Museum
The New Jersey State Museum is located at 205 West State Street in Trenton, New Jersey, United States, overlooking the Delaware River. The Museum is operated as part of the New Jersey Department of State. General admission is free....
(Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913...
). The Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, NJ). The Morris Museum (Morristown. NJ), The Noyes Museum (Oceanville, NJ), Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers State University (New Brunswick, NJ), Boleslawiec Art Museum, (Boleslawiec, Poland), Southwest Minnesota State University Art Museum (Marshall, Minnesota).
Fellowships & Honors include: Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper (Rutgers State University), New Jersey Artist/Teacher Dodge Foundation, Dodge Foundation Residency for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Sweet Briar, Va.), Visiting Artist at the 33rd International Sculpture Symposium In Boleslawiec, Poland, Contemporary Art Center, Artist Residency Award (North Adams, Massachusetts).
Academic: She was a visiting Assistant Adjunct Professor 2007 at Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY Her other mentoring ocontribution have included Art Reach, City Without Walls, Newark NJ, Mapping No Boundaries: An HIV/AIDS Project, “Educating Through the Arts” Visual AIDS, New York, Educational Coordinator, responsible for creating partnerships and art projects: The Boys & Girls Club of Hudson County, Jersey City Museum, Visual AIDS Archive Artists, Newark Art Museum Film Series & Lecture, Brooklyn Museum Collaboration. She spent many years as a public school art teacher, educating young minds and helping good artists become amazing, at Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan
Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan
Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan is a comprehensive four-year regional public high school serving students from several municipalities in Bergen County, New Jersey. The high school serves students from the suburban communities of Harrington Park, Northvale, Norwood, and Old Tappan...
in New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
.
Artist's Statement
My work is influenced by family genealogy, responses to the physical world, personal documents, as well as found and handmade objects. These sources have inspired a series of fragmented images that address a glimpse into self-reflection and recollection.Wood panels and paper support, charcoal, pencil, paint, transferred images, collage and wax. The layered surfaces veil and obscure what is beneath the surface, hidden experiences that elicit the viewer to explore.
" everything of which I know, but of which I am not at the moment thinking; everything of which I was once conscious but have now forgotten..." Jung
"http://www.monabrody.com
Solo Exhibitions
2007 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts "From Fragment to Object" Summit, NJ2003 Studio Montclair: Meet the Artist Series "Framed Evidence", Montclair Library Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2002 Pierro Gallery of South Orange "New Evidence" South Orange, NJ
2000 The Wood Art Gallery "Evidence Series" Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
1998 Gallery at Newark Academy "Beyond the Wall" Livingston, NJ
1997 Aljira, A Center of Contemporary Art "Mona Brody: Recent Works" Newark, NJ
1996 Pine Gallery "An Installation" Fairlawn, NJ
1995 Ben Shahn Galleries “Brody: Sculpture, Prints & Paintings" William Paterson University
William Paterson University
William Paterson University is a comprehensive public institution located in Wayne, New Jersey serving nearly 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students through five colleges: , , , , and ....
, Wayne, NJ
1993 The Montclair Art Museum "Works in Progress" Montclair, NJ
1993 DDC Fine Arts Gallery "From the Journey Series" Montclair, NJ
1992 Kent Place Gallery "Paintings and Works on Paper" Summit, NJ
1991 Treasure Room Gallery "New Works with the Earth" New York, NY
1987 Pleiades Gallery "A Story" New York, NY
1986 Center Gallery "Words and Visual Images" OCCC, Demarest, NJ
Selected Honors, Awards and Grants
2005 New Jersey Artist/Teacher Fellowship, Geraldine Dodge Foundaion Grant. The Governor’s Award in Arts Education, New Jersey State Department of Education VSA Arts Education Award, VSA Arts of New Jersey2004/2002 Geraldine Dodge Foundation Grant, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
2001/2000 Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Artist & Master Printer Norwalk, CT
1998 Gradiva Award National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis New York, NY
1997 The 33rd International Ceramic and Sculpture Symposium Boleslawiec, Poland
1996 NJ Printmaking Fellowship Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper
New Brunswick, NJ Contemporary Artist Center North Adams, MA
Permanent Collections
Southwest Minnesota State UniversitySouthwest Minnesota State University
Southwest Minnesota State University is a public, four-year university that is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. It is located in Marshall, Minnesota, United States, a city of 13,000 people. The school has a full-time enrollment of approximately 3,500 students and...
, Marshall, MN
Marilyn Kushner-Curator, Prints and Drawings Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an encyclopedia art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works....
, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY
Center for Innovative Print & Paper, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ
Jersey City Art Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, CT
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
Boleslawiec Cultural Center & Museum, Boleslawiec, Poland
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
The Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Newark Public Library
Newark Public Library
The Newark Public Library is the public library system for the city of Newark, New Jersey.-History:In 1902 John Cotton Dana became employed at the Newark Public Library in Newark, New Jersey from until his death in 1929. He established foreign language collections for immigrants and also developed...
, Newark, NJ
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Trenton, NJ
The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Nancy Einreinhofer-Director, Ben Shahn Galleries, West Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Education
Vermont College, MFA Visual Arts, Montpelier, VTWebster University
Webster University
Webster University is an American non-profit private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Webster University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools...
, AGC Aesthetics St. Louis, MO
Massachusetts College of Art
Massachusetts College of Art
Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a publicly-funded college of visual and applied art, founded in 1873. It is one of the oldest art schools, the only publicly-funded free-standing art school in the United States, and was the first art college in the United States to grant an artistic degree...
, MS Art Education, Boston, MA
Moore College of Art & Design, BFA Printmaking, Philadelphia, PA