--- title: "266 - Alexander Brodsky, 4/5-5/10 2008" date: 2017-08-22T17:24:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/266-alexander-brodsky-4-5-5-10-2008" section: Exhibition --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Alexander Brodsky [Alexander Brodsky](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/alexander-brodsky) Apr 4 – May 9, 2008 ![Brodsky 2008 Hero](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/brodsky-2008-hero.jpg) Alexander Brodsky Untitled (heads), 2008 Description Incorporating modest materials and layered with metaphorical associations, the exhibition is an elegiac commentary on the impermanence of life and human endeavor. One installation consists of a line of clay heads that stare at television sets implanted in the back of the head that precedes it. The strange iconography of the heads, pocked and etched with age, alludes to a collective subconscious memory of unrecorded civilizations. Encased in a vitrine in the manner of archaeological museums, a second installation displays drawings on used tea bags aligned like a field of gravestones or a miniature Stonehenge. In the third installation, pieces of paper with hieroglyphic-like writing flap in the breeze created by a fan – the winds of time. A master of evocative lighting, Brodsky will also exhibit paintings, applied directly to the surface of light boxes. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Release ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/Brodksy/2008/Brodsky-2008.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) View Artist ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/alexander-brodsky) ![Brodsky Untitled Man With Umbrella 2008](/assets/exhibition_images/Brodsky-Untitled-man-with-umbrella-2008.jpg) Alexander Bordsky Untitled (man with umbrella), 2008 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Brodsky Untitled Man With Umbrella 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Bordsky Untitled (man with umbrella), 2008 ![Brodsky Untitled Street 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky Untitled (street), 2008 ![Brodsky Untitled Head 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky Untitled (head), 2008 ![Brodsky Untitled Tea Bags 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky Untitled (tea bags), 2008 ![Brodsky Untitled Wind Box 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky Untitled (wind box), 2008 ![Brodsky Untitled Heads 2008 View 2]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky Untitled (heads), 2008 ![Brodsky Installation View North Gallery 2008](/assets/exhibition_images/Brodsky/2008-Alexander-Bordsky/Brodsky-Installation-view-North-Gallery-2008.jpg) Alexander Brodsky View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Brodsky Installation View North Gallery 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky installation view ![Brodsky Installation View South Gallery 2008 Closer]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky installation view ![Brodsky Installation View South Gallery 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky installation view ![Brodsky North Gallery Installation View 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky installation view ![Brodsky Installation View North Gallery 2008](/assets/exhibition_images/Brodsky/2008-Alexander-Bordsky/Brodsky-Installation-view-North-Gallery-2008.jpg) ![Brodsky Installation View South Gallery 2008 Closer](/assets/exhibition_images/Brodsky/2008-Alexander-Bordsky/Brodsky-Installation-view-South-Gallery-2008-closer.jpg) ![Brodsky Installation View South Gallery 2008](/assets/exhibition_images/Brodsky/2008-Alexander-Bordsky/Brodsky-Installation-view-South-Gallery-2008.jpg) ![Brodsky North Gallery Installation View 2008](/assets/exhibition_images/Brodsky/2008-Alexander-Bordsky/Brodsky-North-Gallery-Installation-View-2008.jpg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Brodsky Installation View North Gallery 2008]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky installation view ![Brodsky Installation View South Gallery 2008 Closer]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky installation view ![Brodsky Installation View South Gallery 2008]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky installation view ![Brodsky North Gallery Installation View 2008]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Alexander Brodsky installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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