David Brody Paintings

DAVID BRODY AT PIEROGI GALLERY

It has been a while since I last posted and I'm glad. I have used this time to relax. Move into a new apartment and find a new job. Now it's time to get back to business. Well folks, painting is not dead, not at all. In fact I think this might be the most exciting painting time has ever seen. There's so much going on right now that it can be overwhelming. Luckily, I live in New York where there is literally so much going on that I can pick and choose what's important to me and share it all with ya'll. I'm so not southern. These David Brody paintings are the best paintings I've seen in person since seeing Bill Jensen's 2007 show at Cheim and Read. So it's been about 5 years since we've seen paintings as colorful, dynamic, and imaginative as these. If I had 9000 dollars I would buy one. But since I don't, I can only comment that this guy is a rare talent. He paints these amazing abstractions on raw linen with oil paint. The paint builds up to create these beautifully layered textures. The push pull of the painters brush can be seen as more of a discovery than a struggle. Painting is not dead, it has only begun to find it's voice in a contemporary world absorbed by technology and computers. The tradition of painting is still important and still vital to the human soul.