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La série The Junction (fin 2022 - début 2023) tire son nom de la station de métro new-yorkaise où il a installé son studio. Dans tous les travaux de Brodsky, les paysages sont inspirés de ses observations de NYC et Brooklyn en particulier, sans pour autant décrire des endroits particuliers. Dans l’ultra mobilité et l’impermanence des grandes villes, l’artiste est en quête des caractéristiques immuables qui composent l’essence d’une ville ou d’un quartier. Ses habitants solitaires sont dispersés autour de terrains vagues et de chantiers de construction abandonnés, au milieu de ferraille et d'autres artefacts, symboles de la décomposition métropolitaine. La relation entre ces personnages et leur environnement est cruciale - les personnages de Brodsky sont inséparables des architectures qui les entourent.
The Junction, c’est aussi la rencontre de la mélancolie slave et de l’agitation New-yorkaise, ainsi que de deux techniques qui contribuent à l’unicité de ses atmosphères: une approche graphique de l’espace, très influencé par la gravure qu’il a beaucoup pratiquée, et le travail de peinture et pastel, qui apporte transparence et mouvement.
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The Junction is a series of works created by Sasha Brodsky in the Fall of 2022 / beginning of 2023. The word Junction comes from the name of the East New York train station located next to his studio where the pieces were completed. As with all Brodsky’s work, these cityscapes are closely based on observations of New York and Brooklyn in particular, however they do not depict any real place. Instead, they present an abstract image of a city caught on the cusp of inevitable change.
Much like Brodsky’s prints and drawings, this series explores the theme of steadily disappearing character of urban landscape. The Junction continues the artist’s search for immutable qualities that shape authentic nature of a city. Its solitary inhabitants are scattered around empty lots and abandoned construction sites, surrounded by particles of junk and other integral artifacts of metropolitan decay. The relationship between these figures and their environment is crucial — the characters of The Junction define the landscape as much as architecture.
These pieces mark a new direction in Brodsky’s practice emerging from smaller scale works on paper into large scale work on fabric. Each piece is made on canvas or linen using acrylic paint and soft pastels. This technique has a distinctive feel as it blends a more graphic linear approach with elements of painting, providing the work a unique atmosphere between eastern melancholia and the buste of New-York City.
