Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Scott Brodie

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Albany, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003
More: www.scottbrodie.com
Scott Brodie is an American painter, educator, and visual artist. Brodie has had the good fortune to be a painter for more than 40 years unrestricted by the false phantom of fame or the exaggerated suspense of viewer expectation. The two concepts that have served Brodie remarkably well over the decades are “Always dust before vacuuming” and “Never go outside.” Armed with these two motivating ideas, Brodie has constantly strived to make better paintings. Brodie has also strived to pass his knowledge and wisdom to his students. His first teaching position was at San Diego State University. Finding the Southern California weather too much to bear, Brodie made for New York State and eventually became professor of painting and drawing at The College of Saint Rose. Saint Rose became a second home and a supportive environment for 32 years. Inspiration occurs daily as each student, despite Brodie’s teaching, makes another wonderfully unpredictable drawing or painting. Art students have provided Brodie the opportunity to feel respected and important throughout his teaching career.

Studios

Cheney

Scott Brodie worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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