At a recent visit to the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut, I discovered contemporary artist Stephanie Brody-Lederman, her painting “The Mystery of the Landscape of the Dawn” (2013) drew me in through drips of grey paint running atop the terrain of the canvas. Like a warm welcome, I enter in through a large pool of water( a pond?), its still waters are serene hues of blues and purples. To the left is a sloping hill braced by a thick yellow, a sandy color shoreline dotted with a few trees. There are two empty, docked row boats that silently float beneath a purple sky. And then there are those drips of grey paint, one dominant one creates a solid line that splits the canvas in half; a few others look suspended in the calm waters. In the left hand corner, in parentheses, text: “The Mystery of the Landscape at Dawn”
Image Credit: Mattatuck Museum
Stephanie Brody-Lederman’s website: http://www.stephaniebrodylederman.com/
Brody-Lederman, “creates a subtly -toned and beautifully textured composition that incorporate expressive brushwork, smudges, dots that merge into visual poems. Brody-Lederman explains, “What I am trying to do by combining words and images is to make paintings that pay homage to the associative way the head and heart ponder meaningful experiences.” She certainly does this for me–heart and head connect in the swathes of purples, blue, greens–there I go, sliding down that rope of grey drips! Go and experience this evocative work for yourself! Visit Mattatuck Museum — https://www.mattmuseum.org/