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FISCHBACH GALLERY - Alice Dalton Brown

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The Language of Angels
Mar 20 - Apr 26, 2014


The Fischbach Gallery is pleased to present THE LANGUAGE OF ANGELS 
an exhibition of recent paintings and pastels by Alice Dalton Brown, 
Opening 20 March and continuing through 26 April 2014.

The paintings in THE LANGUAGE OF ANGELS, Alice Dalton Browns 
thirteenth solo exhibition at Fischbach Gallery, celebrate life with light 
and its visual reflections. Light is the heart and spirit of Browns 
endeavor; light created in the course of the earths rotation and the 
passing of time.  Alice Dalton Brown is widely known for her scenes of 
water framed by a window with translucent curtains, as well as 
landscapes, architecture, and interiors one might see revealed through a 
window or door. Her work is an invitation to be free and fluid, an 
opening into another world, another mood. Browns well-crafted 
paintings are strong compositions, with themes of reminiscence, and 
each a metaphor for life. Browns rhythmic placements of horizontal and 
vertical elements combine with crisp and elegant compositions.    

In a recent interview when asked what does light mean to you? Brown 
replied, " I love the tensions in the play between darkness and light 
which provide a lively dynamic to a picture:  high contrast and 
unexpected configurations. Light can also produce contradictory results.  
Sometimes it illuminates an object and sometimes it eliminates an 
object."

And questioned about darkness she replied, "Night is an evocative and 
mysterious time in the diurnal rhythm, and visually, a whole different 
spectrum of value and color. "
Asked what water means to her and how her vision comes through Alice 
replied, "Water may have multiple meanings...liberating, a sign of 
opening up, of hopefulness; it can also represent sadness and loss.  For 
me, its an instance where art contains opposites.  My painting works 
when it has an emotional center, a strong composition, and a dream - 
like reality. 

A color catalog for THE LANGUAGE OF ANGELS accompanies the 
exhibition with an essay The Illusion of Reality in Alice Dalton Browns 
Paintings by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Curator of European Painting, 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Born in Danville, Pennsylvania in 1939, Alice Dalton Brown grew up in 
Ithaca, New York.  She studied at the Academy Julian in Paris, 
LUniversité de Grenoble and Cornell University in Ithaca, and received 
her BA from Oberlin College in 1962.  She currently resides in New York.

Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat 10 - 6 pm

Music by:
Chill Carrier - A New Day

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