This retrospective celebrates the career of Stan Brodsky, one of Huntington’s most prominent contemporary artists.  For 50 years, Brodsky has created abstract works of lyrical beauty inspired by the Long Island landscape and his travels in the United States and abroad.  His multi-layered paintings exude dynamic energy and reveal an elegant sensitivity to color rare among his contemporaries.  The exhibition traces the artist’s evolution from early representational works that focus on architectonic city structures, through the minimalist landscapes executed during the artist’s early years on Long Island, to the Abstract Expressionist works that manifest Brodsky’s deepest engagement with the painting process itself.

Stan Brodsky is Professor Emeritus at LIU Post and his work is included in many public and private collections.  He will be honored at the Museum’s Celebrate Achievement Benefit on November 15, 2013 for his significant contributions to the arts on Long Island.

This installation features more than two dozen works that have been acquired by the Museum since 2010, representing a broad range of style and subject matter.  Highlights include a seminal early Montauk scene by the Hudson River School painter Thomas Moran, as well as later Long Island landscapes by Max Weber, Bruce Lieberman, and Darragh Park.   Also on display are abstract works by Theodore Stamos, Nicolas Carone, and Stanley Twardowicz, as well as photographs by Joe Constantino, N. Jay Jaffee, and Neil Scholl. Of special interest is a group of lithographs focusing on light and the geometry of architecture by the Cuban-American painter Emilio Sánchez, and abstracted, textural landscapes by contemporary American painter Ben Frank Moss.

In conjunction with the Public Art Initiative Teen Poetry Project, Poetry for the HART, sponsored by the Town of Huntington, this exhibition showcases works with appeal to a wide range of aesthetic sensibilities.  Brightly colored, energetic paintings by Stuart Davis, George D. Green, Richard Hennessy, and Wayne Gonzales provide vibrant contrast to evocative landscapes by Ralph Albert Blakelock, Jerome Blum, and Matthew Spender.  Also on view are figure paintings and portraits by George Grosz, Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel, and Florine Stettheimer.