Outside In

Maya Brodsky, Amanda Case Millis, Alla Lazebnik

 

 

 

 

MUSA Collective is pleased to announce Outside In, Maya Brodsky, Amanda Case Millis, Alla Lazebnik.

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Saturday, May 4th to Saturday, May 25th

Opening reception: Saturday, May 4th from 4:00pm - 6:00pm

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“Outside In” brings together the work of Maya Brodsky, Amanda Case Millis, and Alla Lazebnik. Each artist explores the notions of an exterior and interior world, and what it means to bring the external inwards into a more personal realm.

 

The three of us came up with the title of the show together, “Outside In”. However, we identified with the title from our individual perspectives. One of the common themes in our work is windows, which express our desire to portray more than one perspective of a physical image through the “Outside In.”

 

 

Maya Brodsky 

For the past several years, I have been exploring notions of home and what home means in relation to observation, time and change.  I try to paint what I see around me.  In my life outside the studio I filter out many of my surroundings, going through the day without close observation. For me, painting is a way of slowing down and looking at something very closely, during which I begin to see the strangeness and the beauty of it. John Updike wrote “We wonder whether a genuine mystery is being concealed here or whether any similar scrutiny of a minute section of time and space would yield similar strangeness—gaps, inconsistencies, warps, and bubbles in the surface of circumstance.”

I am interested in objects which age and endure beyond our lifetime, which seem to hold a story and life within them beyond that of their intended purpose.

 

Amanda Case Millis

For my paintings, “Outside In” means the ability to represent and occupy two spaces in my work. The theme is literal in some paintings, since I bring detritus from the outside world into my studio to study. In other work, I use the window as a formal device. This allows me to bridge two worlds, the interior and the exterior—sometimes from the “Outside In”. 

In all of my work, I merge physical and mental spaces during the painting process: direct observation and the invention that happens as I reflect on the personal stories that surround objects or places in my search for specific color relationships and geometries.

 

 

Alla Lazebnik

Recently, I have been experimenting with a specific printmaking technique. I print my blocks with white ink, and then when the ink dries I paint the paper with water soluble ink which creates an almost negative-like image. The reason I like this process is because it’s very unpredictable and you never know what will happen and it feels like the image is literally turned inside out.

The two pieces “Inside or Outside” and “Outside or Inside” were created with the theme of the show in mind, and explore the difference between utilizing a carved linoleum block as a negative image compared to what was actually printed on paper. This further expresses the delicate process of creating a print.