Maxine Townsend-Broderick

Jamaica, New York

email: m.townsend-broderick@att.net

 

              

Maxine works in a variety of media. As a painter she works in Oil, Watercolor, and Mixed Media (from fabric and sand to collage and encaustic).  Maxine also enjoys print maker creating Etchings, Aquatints, Collagraphs, and Monotype printing. She has created some sculpture and her doll making and jewelry making are in demand. Maxine is also a professional photographer and the owner of Maxine’s Classic Photography/ Creations.   She is presently a photography/Art teacher in the N.Y.C. Dept. of Education.

She studied Advertising Design and Photography at New York City Technical College and etching under Otto Neils at the Bob Blackburn’s Printmakers Workshop in N. Y. C.              

                       Ms. Townsend-Broderick has been a member of the Professional Photographers of Greater New York, the Professional Photographers’ Society of the State of N.Y., and the American Photographic Artisans Guild.  She is a member of  the Alliance of Queens Artists (board member), the Long Island Black Artist Association (past president), and the United Federation of Teachers.

                        Her paintings decorate the walls of NAKISAKI International Restaurant in Hempstead, N.Y., CEMOTAP in South Ozone Park,  N. Y., and African American Museum of Nassau County, Hempstead, N. Y.   Maxine has exhibited her work in New York's  LaGuardia Airport, the African-American Museum of Nassau County, the Queens Museum, the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island (FAMLI), the Chelsea Center, Muttontown, N.Y., the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center in Corona, N.Y., the Great Neck Library, the Westbury Public Library, the Rosa Parks Campus of the College of New Rochelle, Nassau Community College’s Firehouse Gallery, the Art Council of the Electrical Industry, Lever House, Hofstra University, Tanglewood Preserve Outdoor Art Show, Queenborough Community College, Harlem State Office Building, Castillo Center, Harlem Institute, College of New Rochelle, Hempstead Public Library, Freeport Memorial Library, Atlantic City Library, Elmont Public Library, the Plandome Gallery, Queensborough Public Library, Locust Valley Library Gallery, Chase Manhattan Bank, Alliance of Queens Artist Gallery, the Association of Caribbean-American Artists Gallery,  St. Albans Library, Cambria Heights Library, Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, York College, Suffolk Community College, Guild Hall and Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton, N.Y. Gurneys Inn, Montauk, NY,  Montauk Yacht Club, Montauk, New York.  East End Art Gallery  Riverhead, New York and numerous other one woman and group shows.                  

 

 

Mixed Media  

 Torn Paper, Pastel and Watercolor

Grenada Beach Chair 1

Mixed Media 16x20

Grenada Beach Chair 2

Mixed Media 25x31

 

Grenada Beach Chair 3

Mixed Media 25x31

 

Watercolor

Home Sweet Home

Watercolor    25x31

      View From My Bay Window

Watercolor     25x31

 

      Grenada after Ivan 1

Watercolor     25x31

 

Grand Anse Sunset

Mixed Media 16x20

 

Marquis, Grenada W. I.

After Hurricane Ivan

Watercolor 16x20

 

Grenada Rebuilding 1

Watercolor 16x20

Grenada After Ivan 2

Watercolor 16x20

The New Coconut Beach Restaurant, Grand Anse, Grenada, W. I.

Watercolor 16x20

 

Pat and Scratch's Restaurant Rebuilt after Ivan

Watercolor 16x20

 

 

Road Side Shop on

Jouve’ Morning

Watercolor 11x14

 

 

Market Lady in St. George's

Watercolor 11x14

 

 

Boats Beached on Grande

Anse After Ivan

Watercolor 11x14

 

 

End of a Day of Fishing

Watercolor  11x14

 

St. Georges Town Houses

Watercolor 11x14

The Spice Cart Lady

Watercolor   11x14

Market Stand

Watercolor 11x14

 

Grenville Market

Watercolor 11x14

 

 

Austin Plains

Watercolor 11x14

 

 

City Swings

Watercolor 11x14

 

City Night Dance

Watercolor 11x14

 

Invasion of the Mac Mansions

Watercolor 11x14

 

 

Sunny Day in the City

Watercolor  11x14

 

 

Butterfly Bird

Monoprint  8x10

 

Oil

Gathering Previsions

Oil

The Revo

Oil

Pan Men

Oil

   
  River Antoine Rum Man

Oil

 

Mixed Media

Fabric and Sand

Making Coals

Mixed Media

St. George's Market Square

Mixed Media

 

Cracking Nutmeg

Mixed Media 16 x 20

 

Trusting Hands

Mixed Media

 

Washday in Maran

Mixed Media

 

Woman's Work Never Done

Mixed Media  

Mamma's Red Shoes

Mixed Media

Grande Anse Sail

Mixed Media 

 

Gouyave the Fishing Village

Mixed Media

 

 

Inside the Nutmeg Pool

 Mixed Media

 

Mother Weaving

Mixed Media

Waiting Wives

Mixed Media

Concord River Washday

 Mixed Media 16 x 20

Best Friends

Mixed Media 18 x 24

 

 

 Mixed Media

Collage, Watercolor and Encaustics

Hot Jazz

Mixed Media

Metamorphose

Mixed Media

 

Cool Jazz

Mixed Media

 

Printmaking

collagraphs, etchings, aquatints

      New York Twins         collagraph 12x16

Untitled 2

collagraph 11x14

     

   A Slice of the Apple           collagraph 11x14

 

          Hot & Sassy                 collagraph 11x14

 

 

Untitled 1

collagraph    11x14

New York 's Towers

collagraph 12x16

Untitled 3

collagraph    11x14

 

N. Y. C.

collagraph  12x16

 

Subway

 collagraph  8x10

Lady 

collagraph  8x10

Dancer

 collagraph  8x10

 

Untitled 4   

 collagraph  11x14

 

Maxine's Quilts

    
     
     
     
 
     
     
     
   
     
     
     

 

 

 

http://members.tripod.com/maxine_classic/

 

 

 

http://www.maxinesclassiccreations.com/

 

 

http://www.3sistersvillage.com/blog/2011/2/11/tribe-tributes-interview-series-maxine-townsend-broderick.html

 

Times Ledger Interview

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