Sasha Brodsky: Dwelling Place presents pastel on raw linen paintings of urban scenes in which figures and architecture co-determine one another — characters enmeshed within doors, alleyways, overgrown lots, and dormant city spaces. Working from a printmaking background, Brodsky's approach to pastel recalls etching: mark, pressure, and gesture accumulating into spatial depth, tones muted as if filtered through layers. The cities depicted are not literal places but provisional ones — fantastical, jittering, always on the cusp of change — insisting on urban specificity and unruly liveliness against the homogenizing forces of contemporary development.
