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

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

 Mixed Media

Collage, Watercolor and Encaustics

Hot Jazz Mixed Media	Metamorphose Mixed Media	Cool Jazz Mixed Media

Printmaking

collagraphs, etchings, aquatints

Maxine's Quilts

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